On Saturday, 15. October 2011 16:07:42 CJoeB wrote: > 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
you are using vesafb. > 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 To get this resolution that early you need kms. Check your kernel-config: CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set Then you need radeon.modeset=1 instead of the vga=... stuff in your grub.conf. Also, see: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#Kernel-basedModeSetting > Can anyone help me out here? > > Thanks in advance, > Colleen Hth, Michael
