I have a couple of older machines kicking around that I'm trying to
revive, a 2008 Dell desktop and a Lenovo laptop. I installed Gentoo
and ended up with the same problem on both machines...
* During the install process, the text console works OK.
* After the install, it starts off fine with the LILO boot menu.
* After it boots, there is no text at all on the text console.
* After much dicking around, I've managed to get my desktop to ssh
into the old Dell after it boots. It appears to be fully functional,
and I can do just about anything via ssh. Still no text on the
monitor.
* I have not gotten anywhere near installing X.
Here's what make menuconfig > Device Drivers > Graphics support
shows on the Dell d530. Any ideas about text console support?
<*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) ---> | |
-*- VGA Arbitration | |
(16) Maximum number of GPUs | |
[ ] Laptop Hybrid Graphics - GPU switching support | |
<*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI suppor| |
ARM devices ---- | |
< > ATI Radeon | |
< > AMD GPU | |
< > Nouveau (NVIDIA) cards | |
<*> Intel 8xx/9xx/G3x/G4x/HD Graphics | |
() Force probe driver for selected new Intel hardware | |
[*] Enable capturing GPU state following a hang | |
[*] Compress GPU error state | |
[*] Always enable userptr support | |
[ ] Enable Intel GVT-g graphics virtualization host support | |
< > Virtual GEM provider | |
< > Virtual KMS (EXPERIMENTAL) | |
< > DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU | |
< > Intel GMA500/600/3600/3650 KMS Framebuffer | |
< > DisplayLink | |
< > AST server chips | |
< > Matrox G200 | |
< > QXL virtual GPU | |
Display Panels ---> | |
Display Interface Bridges ---> | |
< > ETNAVIV (DRM support for Vivante GPU IP cores) | |
< > DRM Support for bochs dispi vga interface (qemu stdvga) | |
< > Cirrus driver for QEMU emulated device | |
< > GM12U320 driver for USB projectors | |
< > Simple framebuffer driver | |
< > Virtual Box Graphics Card | |
< > GUD USB Display | |
[ ] Enable legacy drivers (DANGEROUS) ---- | |
Frame buffer Devices ---> | |
Backlight & LCD device support ---> | |
Console display driver support --->
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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
