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Comment on Making Gentoo boot even faster by Nic

Boot Linux in 5 seconds: http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ Besides the obvious chopping out of unnecessary boot services, they serialized the important boot services that need to happen in order, and...

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Comment on splashutils-1.5.4 released by loux.thefuture

Hi Spock, could you please take a look at that bug : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268468 it’s about fbcondecor in initramfs with kernel 2.6.29, we can not longer switch to verbose output (for...

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Comment on 915resolution with built-in uvesafb by Mike Lothian

Why don’t you use KMS?

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Comment on 915resolution with built-in uvesafb by mjanusz

I tried and it seemed to work quite fine until I started X and began to type in a urxvt window, which caused a complete screen corruption. I haven’t had the time to figure this out yet, so I decided to...

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Comment on 915resolution with built-in uvesafb by ant

I’ve been using KMS on an eee701 with a 2.6.30rc kernel (zen-sources IIRC). The corruption bugs/lockups seem to have all gone away now. Just to make sure, I had it running Nexuiz for an hour. It wasn’t...

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Comment on 915resolution with built-in uvesafb by Rémi Cardona

Hi Michał, Please, I beg of you, do not publish such information for Intel users out there. The proper way to get a console now is to use KMS+fbcon like Mike suggested. (u)vesafb has been a constant...

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Comment on 915resolution with built-in uvesafb by Michał Januszewski

Rémi, The purpose of my post was not to advocate the use of uvesafb on Intel hardware, but to show how to use uvesafb in case the BIOS needs to be patched. The Intel cards just provide a good example....

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Comment on 915resolution with built-in uvesafb by Josh Enders

Hi Michal, I have a 1000HE and am seeking a 1024×600 framebuffer console and appreciate the information. Would you mind doing a write up on the proper way to use KMS+fbcon coming from 2.6.29-gentoo-r5?

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Comment on Making Gentoo boot even faster by Cross

http://intosimple.blogspot.com/2009/04/sreadahead-on-gentoo.html This was early this year. Check sreadahead implementation on Gentoo and other systems.

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Comment on 915resolution with built-in uvesafb by RJ

So, this means that if I ever want to use KMS I’ll have to kiss my 80×25 text mode console goodbye? I don’t agree with that policy, if it’s true. I’d prefer it if KMS could handle text modes as well as...

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