On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:49:04PM +0100, pat wrote: > Hi All, > > Finally I save time to finish skeleton of my Gentoo, it's nice :-) I > have questions: > 1) where I have to enable DMA access to hdd ??? (using reiserfs)
emerge hdparm (it might allready be installed) then add some thing like hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd to an appropriate startup file but RTFM first before you do anything with hdparm misuse can kill your hardware! > 2) I want to start my text console in figher resolutin, I know I need > frame buffer, but I trying without sucess :-\ What all I have to do ??? Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt and add the appropriate line to the kernel options when you boot (in /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/lilo.conf depends on how you boot) for exmample adding vga=0x317 will give you a 1024x768 64k colour frame buffer, if you've got FB support compiled into the kernel of course. IIRC haven't used fb in quite a while... Cheers Joel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
