Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 20:18:46 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, OK, I see. Does your kernel's command line contain a valid video=... setting? I'm not sure what you mean here. In my make.conf file, I have the line video_cards=nvidia No, I'm talking about boot loader

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:47:21 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is booting, the font doesn't resize - something do do with the framebuffer, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:47:21 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is booting, the font doesn't resize - something do do

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:14:03 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the font doesn't resize mean exactly and how's that looking errorneous to you? It's not that it's erroneous. I'm just being a bit anal. In all my other Gentoo installations, when the computer boots

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:14:03 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the font doesn't resize mean exactly and how's that looking errorneous to you? It's not that it's erroneous. I'm just being a bit anal. In all my other Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread C Lee Davis
Colleen Beamer wrote: I use genkernel and there is a screen resolution of something that says 1024x768 and I can't edit it. I also don't know what my horizontal and vertical sync are because it's not in my documentation and when I used ddxcinfo-knoppix -hsync, it returns 0 0 and

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is booting, the font doesn't resize - something do do with the framebuffer, but I don't know how to correct it - I've followed the nvidia Guide from the