[gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled [REPOST]

2020-06-28 Thread Robin Atwood
Since as Dale and others have pointed out, I posted my first message on this subject by using an existing message as a template which doesn't work because it gets added to the existing thread. So here goes again. (I have also just noticed some replies that I had missed for the same reason: lesson l

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-28 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: > > Given the almost total lack of response to my post, I guess I am stuck > with this problem. > > Thanks > Robin The likely reason you are not getting many responses, you replied to a message in another thread and only changed the subject line.  I don't know anything about s

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-28 Thread Sid Spry
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 2:55 AM Robin Atwood wrote: > > > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:31:30 -0400 > > tedheadster wrote: > > > > > Robin, > > > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build a > > > new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. > > > > > > Altern

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 2:55 AM Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:31:30 -0400 > tedheadster wrote: > > > Robin, > > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build a > > new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. > > > > Alternately, you can hook

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-28 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:55:18 +0700 > > Robin, > > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build > > a new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. > > > > Alternately, you can hook up a serial cable to another computer and > > set "console=ttyS0,115200n8". >