Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> 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 fear my kernel line may be out of date.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 settings. But if you have a procraprietary driver > it may not work. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml#doc_chap2
this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you to be running xorg. What I'm after is a console Framebuffer with higher resolution to shink the fonts down and enlarge the terminal. (on a console) I've been able to do this for years using VESA.
