On 01/31/2018 07:38 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > Installing gentoo-17 as guest in Vbox vm on solaris-11 HOST > (openindiana (powered by Illumos)) > > VBox 5.6.2 > Kernel-4.15.0 > grub2 > > I'm a litte confused about how to enable a high res framebuffer > console. > > At gentoo pages: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Kernel_modesetting > > I've followed the directions there as far as I could. > > lspci on a chroot does not show a driver for the: > Innotek Systemberatung Gmbh VirtualBox Graphics Adapter. > > And I find nothing about Innotek searching with '/' in menuconfig. > So could not make any specific settings like those shows on the gentoo > wiki pages for nVidia and AND/ATI > > Other pages such as https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fbsplash seem to > indicate I would need to create an initramfs. > > The first page cited near the top of post .. tells you NOT to set some > of the things the citation containing fbsplash (above) tell you to set. > > Such as <*> Userspace VESA VGA > [*] Vesa VGA > > Is something outdate in one of those pages? > > Can someone using the kernel framebuffer explain how to do it on > gentoo guest of vm? > > > . Searched for that "device" and found a few interesting links: > https://askubuntu.com/questions/435940/do-i-need-linux-drivers-for-virtual-box > https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html . If Linux has no access to the actual hardware ... the old "VGA=" hex codes might work : > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/lilo-vga-modes-152575/ I have never tried the codes on "Userspace VESA VGA". Might want to leave that out for a test run.
. Corbin
