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stu_rat
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 Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject: Console does not use whole screen |
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I've installed 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 on a Dell Latitude C640 laptop. The console uses an area of approx. 4" x 7" in the centre of the LCD. If I boot the live CD the full screen is used. I enabled "Userspace VESA VGA graphics support" and "Framebuffer console support" when I built the kernel.
This is my grub.conf:
title Gentoo Linux 2.6.36-r5
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/sda3 video=uvesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1024x768-32@60
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pigeon768
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| From what I gather the C640 uses a Radeon video card - what happens when you enabled KMS and KMS by default and disable the framebuffer? |
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| pigeon768 wrote: | | From what I gather the C640 uses a Radeon video card - what happens when you enabled KMS and KMS by default and disable the framebuffer? |
I think you've got it mixed up - chances are he wants KMS and then it's uvesafb that should be removed. |
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stu_rat
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Following your suggestions, I disabled framebuffer support and enabled KMS, but this didn't fix it. So I rebuilt without KMS and with framebuffer, but this time chose the ATI driver [CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y] instead of uvesafb. This has fixed it.
Thanks for your help. |
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, you still misunderstood things, but whatever. |
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