Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> 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 sure to
> also enable KMS.  You need to disable the VESA/uvesafb drivers to
> avoid conflicts.
>
> What graphics card do you have, btw?

The gentoo install is a guest (Virtual Box) vm hosted on win 7.
Video information:

>From lspci:
VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox 
Graphics Adapter

More from lshw:
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
             vendor: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: vga_controller bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:e0000000-e0ffffff
    


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