On Saturday 05 February 2011 15:27:27 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:05:01PM -0800, walt wrote > > > On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > >> Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can > > >> have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and > > >> colour depths. Is there a way to set tty1..tty9 to 640x480 *IN TEXT > > >> MODE*, so that lat1-?? fonts would look normal, without killing the > > >> ability to have X run at 1920x1200? > > > > > > Note that the suggestion the others gave about disabling KMS is > > > probably > > > > > >not what you need. Disabling KMS means that it will also be disabled for > > >X11, not only for the framebuffer. As you can imagine this is a bad > > >thing. > > > > I'm aware of KMS because of my experiments with the 'nouveau' driver, but > > I still have no idea what KMS really does. > > > > In other words, I *cannot* imagine why disabling KMS is a bad thing, but > > I would very much like to know :) > > Walt, Alan, Enrico, Nikos see the thread "Not getting video hardware > acceleration" that I started on January 31. Without KMS, and the > resulting DRI2 acceleration, my laptop could not run mplayer fast enough > to keep up with an HDTV feed. With KMS, which is required by the bibary > blob in the new Radeon driver, it works fine. The documentation at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml requires KMS for newer ATI > Radeon cards. > > In "make menuconfig", I do not have any drivers enabled under... > Device Drivers ---> > Graphics support ---> > -*- Support for frame buffer devices ---> > but I still have /dev/fb0 show up. Under... > Console display driver support ---> > the line... > -*- Framebuffer Console support > indicates that framebuffer console support is enabled, whether I like it > or not. This is part and parcel of the ARI Radeon driver. Without it, > no X.
Right, but a framebuffer (KMS driven or vesa, et al.) is not a bad thing. Just try video=1024x768 (or whatever your desired resolution is) on the kernel line and it should just work. -- Regards, Mick
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