Hi!
Indeed, that looks quite promising. It would be a nice Christmas
present for Gentoo users.
In the mean time my problems were gone by using the versions stated in the bug.
Greetings!
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Jorge Martínez López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jorgeml.net
Jorge Martínez López wrote:
uvesafb was working perfectly for me, without any delays at boot. It
has been included in the mainline kernel and it seems to be "The Way
to Go" (TM).
I stumbled upon a new development on X.Org: Kernel Mode Setting. I
think that "The Way to Go" will be using the sa
I went through the kernel options turning everything on for console and
now I have it back.
BillK
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 11:42 +0200, Jorge Martínez López wrote:
> Hello!
>
> 2008/7/27 Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [...]
> > I was always getting that one too, but other than this messag
Jorge Martínez López wrote:
Hello!
2008/7/27 Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...]
I was always getting that one too, but other than this message, it was
working.
I switched from uvesafb to vesafb at some point (to have the boot splash
enabled right at boot without any delay). If you'r
Hello!
2008/7/27 Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...]
> I was always getting that one too, but other than this message, it was
> working.
>
> I switched from uvesafb to vesafb at some point (to have the boot splash
> enabled right at boot without any delay). If you're on x86 or AMD64 you
Jorge Martínez López wrote:
Hi!
Again, it is not working. The relevant error in /var/log/messages is:
uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x209, err=0)
I was always getting that one too, but other than this message, it was
working.
I switched from uvesafb to vesafb at some point (to have the
Hi!
Sorry for the monologue. It appears to be a complex issue. I hope
someone with more experience can solve this.
Here come some links with interesting info:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226107
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/7/241
Greetings!
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Jorge Martínez López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi!
Again, it is not working. The relevant error in /var/log/messages is:
uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x209, err=0)
In the mean time I recompiled the kernel (2.6.25-gentoo-r7). I will
reemerge v86d once again, to see if it fixes it.
Greetings!
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Jorge Martínez López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h
Hi!
Recompile v86d with the x86emu flag on. That solved the problem for me.
Greetings!
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Jorge Martínez López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jorgeml.net
William Kenworthy wrote:
Thanks, its an R280 (9200) on an old athlon - but I'll give the upgrade
a go.
I don't think it will help on R280 (and it's not worth the hassle as
xf86-video-ati 6.9.0 pulls in many ~arch packages (maybe [M] too even).
As a starter, comment out every fancy stuff in x
Thanks, its an R280 (9200) on an old athlon - but I'll give the upgrade
a go.
BillK
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 03:50 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I have a machine thats sudeenly lost its console sessions. I dont think
> > its the kernel as the config looks ok, and it
William Kenworthy wrote:
I have a machine thats sudeenly lost its console sessions. I dont think
its the kernel as the config looks ok, and it *used to work*. Its fine
on bootup, but once X starts, switching to a console just gives a blank
screen.
Its a radeon video card using the radeon drive
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