Hi guys, I'm still struggling with this. Gave up last weekend and haven't had time until now. Thought I had it going when I got a command prompt and then, networking wasn't working. Anyway, more details .....
On 10/10/11 16:43, David Abbott wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:31 PM, CJoeB <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but >>>> was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to >>>> boot into my new system. I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed >>>> to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a >>>> command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half >>>> black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this >>>> any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem >>>> that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with >>>> the same result. > I would enable kms; > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernel_Modesetting_.28KMS.29 > http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-831521-start-0.html I booted to the Gentoo install CD, went through all the steps to make sure I hadn't missed anything. I followed the directions on the above link for my Radeon card. When I existed the 'chroot'd' environment and rebooted, the system seemed to hang - the last few lines that appear on the screen are: [drm] Loading CAICOS Microcode Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3392.289 MHz Switching to clocksource tsc I took someone else's advice who responded to my original post and got the output from dmesg after the install CD booted. Below is the entire listing related to the video section: vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9 vesafb:scrolling:redraw vesafb:Truecolor:size=0;5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 vesafb:framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xffffc90010100000, using 3072k, total 16384k console: switching to colour framebuffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA framebuffer device I really understand very little of what this is telling me except for the screen resolution and I get that there are hex code references in my grub.conf file the video line is as follows: vga=-0X31B video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap I read somewhere that for radeon card you use the above statement as opposed to: video=uvesafb:mtrr:ywrap,1920x1080@60 Documentation for my monitor states that the max resolution is 1920x1080@60 Hz Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
