On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:41:45 -0500 »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:52:05 +0800 > "Astomi Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi gentoo friends, > > > > I'm a newbie in gentoo world. > > > > I follow Gentoo Handbook to installl a new sytem in Vmware. My > > question is the new system console is 800*600. I want to change to > > 1280*800(my laptop in windows in this szie). > > > > I search in Gentoo Forums, find a thread > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 about this topic. > > > > If I add video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317 in grub, system.failed > > to start. > > <http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/>
In my experience, uvesafb is slower & doesn't actually support any more resolutions than vesafb, so I don't use it myself; other than one really nifty uvesafb has. It probes the video card & attached display to determine supported modes, and provides that list in /sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/vbe_modes. So I'll use uvesafb to get that list, and choose a resolution I want from it, and then use vesafb w/ that video mode. YMMV, Conway S. Smith -- The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (Bruce Ediger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.)
