This One Time, at Band Camp, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:23:04AM -0500: > on Tuesday 02/19/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng > > > seemed to disappear -- its in the .config, but for some reason I am > > > getting a console of 25x80. Now I have the default mode set to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] which works fine with the 2.6.21 kernel, but not the > > > 2.6.24 one. What is strange is that I can't find the vesatng in the > > > .config, but if I go into make menuconfig its there, so can someone > > > explain why things are not working properly for 2.6.24? > > > Thanks. > > > -- > > since the 23 version vesatng is removed. You can used the next generation > > of spocks fb support named uvesfb. Follow the this page > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ > > . > Do I still need to do what I have been doing -- using genkernel to > generate the initial ram disk or should I skip this step? > Thanks. Yes it is the same as vesafb, though you should install sys-apps/v86d and make sure you have CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/usr/share/v86d/initramfs" in your kernel config... -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.
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