On Tuesday 22 September 2009 12:33:59 Willie Wong wrote: > Is the framebuffer working? I mean, when you boot with the parameters > listed up there, are you stuck in 80x25 or are you in a framebuffer > mode that you don't like?
No, the fram buffer is not active - I just get 80x25, or some others if I pass a vga= parameter to the kernel. > If you are stuck in 80x25 text-mode, the intelfb kernel documentation > suggests you try setting the vga mode, see the file vesafb.txt in your > kernel documentation directories for details. (The problem is that the > vesafb modes do not include one that is the native resolution for the > 16:9 aspect ratio displays; on LCDs this will make the text look > crappy). And I haven't been able to get the fesa fb to work either. Incidentally, if I have both intelfb and vesafb compiled in (*), vesafb takes over in spite of have intelfb specified via grub. Not what I expected. > If the framebuffer is working, maybe you just want to play with the > screen resolution? I think that 1024x600 is correct for the 1000 > series though. Do you just want a certain number of rows and columns > of text on your console? That I think is determined by the FONTS > symbol, the configuration should be somewhere around where you enabled > framebuffer support. Changing the font size should also change the > number of rows and columns. 1024x600 is correct, I'm sure of it. Fiddling with the fonts may help but I'd rather get the underlying screen resolution right first if I can. > On yres of 600, if you want something close to 60 lines, then you may > want to try using the 8x8 VGA font. The standard 8x16 fonts will > provide 30 someodd lines. Thanks for the ideas. * Thanks also to Daniel; I'd overlooked gentoo-wiki, where there seems to be lots of good advice. I'll have a go at that later. -- Rgds Peter
