On 01/31/2018 07:38 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup:
> Installing gentoo-17 as guest in Vbox vm on solaris-11 HOST
>(openindiana (powered by Illumos))
>
> VBox 5.6.2
> Kernel-4.15.0
> grub2
>
> I'm a litte confused about how to enable a high res framebuffer
> console.
>
> At gentoo pages:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Kernel_modesetting
>
> I've followed the directions there as far as I could.
>
> lspci on a chroot does not show a driver for the:
> Innotek Systemberatung Gmbh VirtualBox Graphics Adapter.
>
> And I find nothing about Innotek searching with '/' in menuconfig.
> So could not make any specific settings like those shows on the gentoo
> wiki pages for nVidia and AND/ATI
>
> Other pages such as https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fbsplash seem to
> indicate I would need to create an initramfs.
>
> The first page cited near the top of post .. tells you NOT to set some
> of the things the citation containing fbsplash (above) tell you to set.
>
> Such as <*> Userspace VESA VGA
> [*] Vesa VGA
>
> Is something outdate in one of those pages?
>
> Can someone using the kernel framebuffer explain how to do it on
> gentoo guest of vm?
>
>
>
.
Searched for that "device" and found a few interesting links:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/435940/do-i-need-linux-drivers-for-virtual-box
> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html
.
If Linux has no access to the actual hardware ... the old "VGA=" hex
codes might work :
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/lilo-vga-modes-152575/
I have never tried the codes on "Userspace VESA VGA".
Might want to leave that out for a test run.
.
Corbin
