02 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 7:44 pm
The Frame Buffer/Nvidia/Xorg problem To get the frame buffer support I compiled the relavent sections into the kernel and added “video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=865″ to the kernel line in my grub.conf. The framebuffer works correctly and with these settings. It is then possible to load gdm and enter gnome without issue. The problem comes when trying to [...]
02 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 7:03 pm
Kernel Config [gentoo-sources, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5] Still alot of uneeded things in there and probably a few needed things that aren’t. It does boot though and will provide a base from which to expand from.
02 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 6:13 pm
I have recently acquired a Toshiba Satellite X200-20S laptop. Whilst it shipped with Windows Vista it was never my intention to run it as the primary OS. The primary OS for this machine will be Gentoo Linux. This is my first post in what might be a series of configuration notes for the aforementioned setup. [...]
