Go Team Venture!

[graafen]

I spent a good portion of last night playing around with Gentoo, almost an hour of which was spent trying to figure out why the console framebuffer wasn't working right. In the end I just removed nvidiafb (framebuffer for nVidia cards) from the kernel and used vesafb (generic framebuffer) instead, which worked fine.

Tonight I plan to at least get X, ALSA and WINE installed. I'll be happy if I can be playing EVE before the end of tonight. :)

Many thanks go out to ceralor for his advice. My linux mind was stuck in Debian mode and I was having a hard time trying to remember how Gentoo works. Thankfully it's all coming back. :D

Oh yes, my machine is now called "Mother".

P.S. Thank you Bravo for adult swim, especially The Venture Bros.

Comments

[graafen]

I think you're confused here, although I may have not made it clear enough.

X is not yet installed, nor are the nVidia X drivers, hence the paragraph that X are getting installed tonight. :P

Having said that though it was pretty silly of me to try using nvidiafb considering that I will be using the official nVidia drivers. And as mentioned about I am using vesafb. I should mention that this is an AMD64 system, so vesa-tng isn't an option.

[darac.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am confused. I think nisabEs confuse easily :) I did read that you were installing X, but that just didn't register.

Yeah, vesa-tng's a nice idea but A) it's ia32-only B) it can only use the resolutions your BIOS reports and if, like my laptop, that doesn't include native, you won't get the nifty hi-res. But 1024x768 is close enough for me on my 1280x800 panel.