On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:02, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > Hello list, > > My wife has a nice new Asus 1005AH and I'm installing Gentoo on it so that > she won't have to struggle with the likes of Lookout Inarush. > > I've spent several days so far exploring blind alleys while getting the box > to boot with a working Ethernet connection; eventually I discovered that I > had to go to gentoo-sources-2.6.31, and I now have a running text-mode > system. > > While messing about at the weekend I found a frame-buffer mode I liked, but > now I can't reproduce it. The graphics chip is an Intel 945GME Express, I > have intelfb and i2c-dev compiled into the 2.6.31 kernel, and this grub > entry: > > root (hd0,4) > kernel /kernel-2.6.31-gentoo root=/dev/sda6 video=intelfb:mode=1024x600 > softlevel=no-x > > When I accidentally hit on the configuration I liked, the display started at > the standard 80x25, then when it got to "Waiting for uevents to be > processed" the screen blanked and then continued in something like 60 lines > (I didn't actually count them); finally at udev-postmount the line length > was changef from 80 to something like 120 (I didn't count that either). A > very pretty display, clear as crystal. > > Can anybody point me to the config I need? I've tried google of course but > no joy there. >
Have you tried: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA Specially the part that explains the new Kernel Modesetting? The new GEM and some new features in newer kernels are pretty much all I neeeded for my framebuffer. -- Daniel da Veiga
