--- Janne V�nttinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I just finished installing Gentoo to a laptop and I
> seem to have some
> kind of a problem. The picture during and after boot
> takes about quarter
> of the screen surface, in the middle. The effect is
> similar as when I
> booted the live-cd, except that in that case the
> picture expanded to a
> full screen right after the boot choice. What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> Is this a kernel option problem? I did a stage1
> installation and did not
> use genkernel, so this is the first thing that comes
> to mind, but I
> really don't know which options I should check. What
> else it could be, I
> have no clue.
>
> I have limited linux experience, so any help would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
Hi Janne,
You need the vga option on the kernel command line. I
believe the livcd uses vga=0x317. See
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
Zac
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