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chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Beyond and vesa-tng

So I've installed kernel26beyond on my laptop so I can use suspend2, and fantastic, it works!  One problem though, my laptop really hates (and I mean really) vesa-tng, so is there a way to force the kernel to use the old style vesa framebuffer instead of vesa-tng?

Cheers,

Chris

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Desktop: AMD Athlon64 3800+ Venice Core, 2GB PC3200, 2x160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 2x320GB WD Caviar RE, Nvidia 6600GT 256MB
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patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: Beyond and vesa-tng

The choice of the fb is necessarily fixed in a binary kernel.
However, it is so easy to configure and compile the kernel on your own through abs that this should not regarded as an issue.

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chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: Beyond and vesa-tng

I've only just installed Arch Linux (about 4 hours ago), so I am yet to look at ABS (I quite like the look of it, given my Gentoo background), but cheers for the pointer

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Desktop: AMD Athlon64 3800+ Venice Core, 2GB PC3200, 2x160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 2x320GB WD Caviar RE, Nvidia 6600GT 256MB
Laptop: Intel Pentium M, 512MB PC2700, 60GB IBM TravelStar, Nvidia 5200Go 64MB