On Tuesday, July 5 at 11:27 (-0400), cov...@ccs.covici.com said:
> I tried to use kms, but it conflicted with the nvidia driver and did
> not
> give me as much screen size in the console as uvesafb.
Yeah, you can't use the nvidia driver and KMS at the same time. You'd
have to use the nouveau d
Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
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> On Monday, July 4 at 13:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
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> > Are you saying it does not require `xorg-x11'.
> >
> > Step 2) says in large type:
> >`2. Installing Xorg'
> >
> > Then a big note in a green box later on says:
> >
> > ,
> > | Note: You could
On 07/05/2011 03:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
[...]
Harry wrote:
So I'm a little confused.
Nikos replied:
The guide deals with how to make X.Org use KMS. That does not mean
that KMS requires X. For your X-less machine, all you need to do is
enable the driver for yo
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
>
>>> I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's
>>> kernel and do anything useful there? This is more
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
[...]
Harry wrote:
>> So I'm a little confused.
Nikos replied:
> The guide deals with how to make X.Org use KMS. That does not mean
> that KMS requires X. For your X-less machine, all you need to do is
> enable the driver for your card in the kernel config, and make
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
>> I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's
>> kernel and do anything useful there? This is more for learning and
>> not about any practical need at this ti
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:34:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's
> > kernel and do anything useful there? This is more for learning and
> > not about any practical need at this time.
>
> From my understanding, this topic gets yucky. T
On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Alan McKinnon
wrote:
> > On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
> >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon
> >> so does bootsplash run using framebuffer or is it compl
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>> > On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
>> >> > The way I've been doing this only required `ves
On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon
wrote:
> > On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
> >> > The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or
> >> > `uvesa' and some special kernel line stuff. No
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
>> > The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or `uvesa' and
>> > some special kernel line stuff. None of the X related stuff is
>> > necessary.
>> >
>> > From covici's po
On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
> > The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or `uvesa' and
> > some special kernel line stuff. None of the X related stuff is
> > necessary.
> >
> > From covici's post... I think I may need to say uvesa where I've
> > been sa
On Monday, July 4 at 13:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Are you saying it does not require `xorg-x11'.
>
> Step 2) says in large type:
>`2. Installing Xorg'
>
> Then a big note in a green box later on says:
>
> ,
> | Note: You could install the xorg-x11 metapackage instead of the mo
On 07/04/2011 09:10 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Albert Hopkins writes:
On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you
to be running xorg.
KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the
kernel h
Harry Putnam wrote:
> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:
>
> >> I've been able to do this for years using VESA.
> >>
> > I use uvesafb and it works without X -- I get 60x164, depending on the
> > resolution your mileage may vary.
>
> If it done in the kernel line of grub.conf? I realize it must
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
>
>> On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
>>> this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you
>>> to be running xorg.
>>
>> KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:
>> I've been able to do this for years using VESA.
>>
> I use uvesafb and it works without X -- I get 60x164, depending on the
> resolution your mileage may vary.
If it done in the kernel line of grub.conf? I realize it must be
enabled in kernel and I have done t
Albert Hopkins writes:
> On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
>> this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you
>> to be running xorg.
>
> KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the
> kernel handle graphics mode setting and get
On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you
> to be running xorg.
KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the
kernel handle graphics mode setting and gets out of the way.
But KMS doesn
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
>
> > On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> >
> >> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I
> >> fear my kernel line may be out of date.
> >>
> >
> > A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one
Albert Hopkins writes:
> On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
>
>> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I
>> fear my kernel line may be out of date.
>>
>
> A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way™ for
> doing console/X mode se
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