on Saturday 06/20/2009 Ian Lee(i...@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk) wrote
> John covici wrote:
> > Hi. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and for the life of me, I
> > can't get uvesafb to work. There are no messages, I just get the 25
> > lines by 80 column screen. I emerged clib, and v86d and made sure my
> > .config had /usr/share/v86d/initramfs as the initramfs source, and I
> > have uvesafb built in to the kernel. My boot time command line
> > arguments to lilo are:
> > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda5 udev
> > video=uvesafb:1024x768 speakup.synth=spkout
> > (all on one line in the original).
> >
> > Attached is my emerge --info and my kernel config -- assistance would
> > be appreciated.
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> According to you kernel config, uvesafb is not built in to the kernel,
> but as a module. Try building it in to the kernel and not as a module.
>
OK, thought it was built in, will try again -- thanks.
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