On 04/10/2010 09:17 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
I found this in my email notes. I had exactly the same problem on my i915:
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CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set
drm_i915 needs this to display the console. so you have to set this to
yes or make shure the module is loaded or you get a blank screen at
bootup until x starts.
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Yeah, you definitely need that; here's mine:
$ grep CONSOLE /boot/config-$(uname -r)
# CONFIG_NETCONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
* CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY is not set
# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION is not set
Wow. I just wrote a mile-long email in the other thread... all for
nothing, it would seem! Glad you found an easy fix, though!
[...]
and I now see the login screen displayed in beautiful 1920 x 1080. Pretty!!
So I added xdm to the default start level, rebooted and I get the gdm
login screen. I'm up and running. (Well, sort of. No mouse and
keyboard but that probably isn't anything serious. Says it cannot find
the evdev driver...)
Strange, it looked to me (in the other thread) like Gentoo was building
"evdev" for you -- look at the very first value listed after
"INPUT_DEVICES":
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 INPUT_DEVICES="evdev
-acecad -aiptek -joystick -keyboard -mouse -penmount -synaptics
-tslib -virtualbox -vmmouse -void -wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev radeon
-apm -ark -ast -chips -cirrus -dummy -epson -fglrx (-geode) -glint
-i128 (-i740) (-impact) -intel -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport)
-nv -nvidia -r128 -radeonhd -rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage
-siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-suncg14) (-suncg3)
(-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx)-tdfx -tga -trident -tseng
-v4l -vesa -via -virtualbox -vmware (-voodoo) (-xgi)" 0 kB
Should be there.
OK - so I still don't have the settings correct to see the higher
resolution fonts, and I want to get that very much. However it's
really good progress!
Not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about text mode fonts when
the kernel is booting, or fonts used by the X server (or the display
manager) when it runs?
Let me study my i915 setup a little more and see if I can find the
thing that turned the fonts on there.
Glad for the good news,
Dave W.
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