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> From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue 8/23/2005 5:18 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 > > Marcel Romijn schreef: > > > > > > I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, > > it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in > > grub.conf. > > Maybe that was a wrong assumption? > > Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the > kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally > the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the > kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill. > > If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your > kernel config. Hmmm..., I just followed the installation handbook. Plain, unmodified kernel configuration, which has framebuffer support enabled. At the chapter of configuring grub, it mentiones that using the framebuffer was optional. <quote> If you have configured your kernel with framebuffer support (or you used genkernel's default kernel configuration), you can activate it by adding a vga and/or a video statement to your bootloader configuration file. </quote> I tried some kernel parameters in grub.conf: video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Still stalls. video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Because I read in a mailing list about vesafb not being able to switch refresh rates (might have been an old mailing list) Still stalls. video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Removed the mtrr and ywarp in case they were not supported. Still stalls. video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In case 'vesafb-tng' is not supported but 'vesafb' is. Still stalls, but messes up the remaining text on the screen. In the mean time, I have done the same install in VMware. That install boots (succesfully!) with the "video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" setting!! (Although in 640x480, but that's caused by VMware). So my conclusion is that there is something with my hardware configuration. I'm using a VIA Epia ME6000 Mini ITX board. I had Gentoo 2005.0 running on this board, so maybe something changed in this area between 2005.0 and 2005.1? When I boot this board with the Gentoo 2005.1 LiveCD, it seems to use the framebuffer. The isolinux.cfg mentions "vga=791", but that doesn't seem to solve my problem as well. > > Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the > previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that, > but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra > work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an > override that may or may not work). -nofb , as suggested by Michael Kintzios, did not help. > > Hope this helps, > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org <mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org> mailing list Thanks for the help so far... Marcel Romijn
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