On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:20:14 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Would someone please remind me of what frame-buffer kernel settings I need > for an i915 driver? I'm going round in circles, but whatever I try, this > new laptop shows the initramfs-loaded message, then remains blank apart > from that. I can see disk activity, and the machine responds to > CTRL-ALT-DEL as expected; just no display.
After much going round in circles, I found that all I had to do was to emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev. Why, on that machine and not on others, I can't imagine. -- Regards, Peter.