nightmorph 08/03/06 08:50:03 Modified: nvidia-guide.xml Log: switched from vesafb-tng to uvesafb
Revision Changes Path 1.45 xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.45&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.45&content-type=text/plain diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?r1=1.44&r2=1.45 Index: nvidia-guide.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v retrieving revision 1.44 retrieving revision 1.45 diff -u -r1.44 -r1.45 --- nvidia-guide.xml 15 Nov 2007 20:22:55 -0000 1.44 +++ nvidia-guide.xml 6 Mar 2008 08:50:03 -0000 1.45 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v 1.44 2007/11/15 20:22:55 nightmorph Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v 1.45 2008/03/06 08:50:03 nightmorph Exp $ --> <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> <guide link="/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml"> @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> <license/> -<version>1.35</version> -<date>2007-11-15</date> +<version>1.36</version> +<date>2008-03-06</date> <chapter> <title>Introduction</title> @@ -165,31 +165,31 @@ </pre> <p> -A good framebuffer alternative is <c>VESA</c>: +A framebuffer alternative is <c>VESA</c>: </p> <pre caption="Enable VESA support"> Device Drivers ---> Graphics Support ---> -<*> VESA VGA graphics support +[*] VESA VGA graphics support </pre> <p> -Then, under "VESA driver type" select either <c>vesafb</c> or -<c>vesafb-tng</c>. If you are using an AMD64 processor, you should select -<c>vesafb</c> rather than <c>vesafb-tng</c>: +Or, you may want to try <c>uvesafb</c>, an <uri +link="http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/";>advanced +framebuffer</uri>. Note that you can choose to compile it into your kernel, or +as a module. The following example compiles uvesafb into the kernel. </p> -<pre caption="Select framebuffer type"> -(X) vesafb -( ) vesafb-tng +<pre caption="Enable uvesafb support"> +Device Drivers ---> +Graphics Support ---> +<*> Userspace VESA VGA graphics support </pre> <p> -For more information, you can read up -<path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt</path> if you are using -<c>vesafb</c> or look for your framebuffer documentation under -<path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/</path>. +For more information, you can look up the documentation for your chosen +framebuffer in <path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/</path>. </p> </body> -- [email protected] mailing list
