Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 20:42:47 Ale wrote: Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa You have to select Connector - unified userspace - kernelspace linker in the Device Drivers page. Then you will have

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Ale
2008/3/27, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 25 March 2008 20:42:47 Ale wrote: Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa You have to select Connector - unified userspace - kernelspace

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 have you tried vga=ask ? Chuanwen Wu wrote: | On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Ricardo Saffi Marques | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | uvesafb works nice. | Can anyone help me

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried vga=ask ? I did try that. But it suggests many different things. None of them works as I want it to (or as vesafb-tng would when I set up the resolution by myself on the kernel config). And worse: for me to

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-26 Thread Alexander Meinke
Ian Lee wrote: i always thought vga= was only used by the old vesafb driver i use video=uvesafb:1024x768-32 i cant get any wide screen modes to work at all, anybody else know how?? Did you tried to find out what resolutions are supported by your graphic card (e.g. hwinfo --framebuffer)? I

[gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uvesafb works nice. Can anyone help me with the following? Do any of you know how to make uvesafb (that replaces the old vesafb-tng) set to a pre-defined resolution? What I mean is that with vesafb-tng I used to set like:

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Meinke
Hi. Try to determine possible resolutions by typing hwinfo --framebuffer. Use the hex code 0x... and put it as kernel parameter in your grub.conf. For 1400x1050 with kernel 2.6.24-r3 I am using the following lines: title Gentoo GNU/Linux (gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r3) root (hd0,1) kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ale
2008/3/25, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:* * Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Meinke
Ale wrote: 2008/3/25, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: * * Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa Yes I am using gentoo-sources. I think since kernel 2.6.23 (or maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to determine possible resolutions by typing hwinfo --framebuffer. Use the hex code 0x... and put it as kernel parameter in your grub.conf. Okay, *that* I didn't know. :-) I do know 1440x900 is a supported

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ian Lee
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to determine possible resolutions by typing hwinfo --framebuffer. Use the hex code 0x... and put it as kernel parameter in your grub.conf. Okay,

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Ian Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i always thought vga= was only used by the old vesafb driver i use video=uvesafb:1024x768-32 i cant get any wide screen modes to work at all, anybody else know how?? Nice, new thoughts being added to the discussion. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Chuanwen Wu
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Ricardo Saffi Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uvesafb works nice. Can anyone help me with the following? Do any of you know how to make uvesafb (that replaces the old vesafb-tng) set