It's under device drivers->graphic support. You select Support for framebuffer. Select it and you get a VESA VGA graphics support option in the list which has a sub item with VESA driver type .... Hit enter there and you can select vesa or vesafb-tng.
On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:45, Harry Putnam wrote: > Installing from scratch and getting confused about where the kernel > framebuffer stuff is. > Quoting from the handbook here: > > --- > First of all you need to know what type of framebuffer device you're > using. If you use a Gentoo patched kernel tree (such as > gentoo-sources) you will have had the possibility of selecting > vesafb-tng as the VESA driver type (which is default for these kernel > sources). > > If this is the case, you are using vesafb-tng and do not need to set a > vga statement. Otherwise you are using the vesafb driver and need to > set the vga statement. > --- > > I did use the gentoo-sources. I did not use genkernel. > > I didn't see anything about vesafb-tng in the make menuconfig options > nor in the resulting .config. I'm assuming its under Graphic Drivers > section? > > In older kernels I remember this being obvious but not in this one. > > The install manual tells you that you have to know which type of > device but I wasn't able to tell where in the kernel config this is? > > I've run gentoo for about a year or more and have never really got the > framebuffer stuff to work like I wanted, so have just ignored it all > that time. I'd now like to get it working finally. > > Seemed the stumbling block has always been getting the large console > resolution 1280x1024. This is easily accomplished in lilo so I've > been running that way, but then ... no framebuffer. > > Waaaa I want the gentoo trademark too..... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
