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Skriven 2015-10-03 04:28:20 av Benny Pedersen (2:230/0)
  Kommentar till text 17759 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/7001.0)
Ärende: kernel 4.2.2, so what ? :=)
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Hello Maurice!

29 Sep 2015 03:19, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> and vesa does not do a good job ?

 MK> Excellent as long as one has a standard resolution monitor.  
 MK> Widescreens suck on vesafb.

ahh ok, got it now

 BP>> when booting here, it boots in VGA mode,

 MK> I can live with that for most things I do.  Occasionally I have use 
 MK> for graphics and framebuffer on the console is an extremely desirable 
 MK> thing to have at one's fingertips on those occasions.

i just want to make the boot into radeonfb in the first boot screen after grub2
have being shown, as i rember its a kernel boot option to make sure it select
this first, or is it a .config option ?

 BP>> just sec later enable radeonfb output,

 MK> I've never ssen that one.  Ages ago I did have the original ati 
 MK> framebuffer working which could change resolutions on the fly (same 
 MK> with matrox which was my favourite at the time).

yep i rember the g200 aswell just like the i740 :=)

 MK> That was long before 
 MK> widescreens became so cheap and replaced standard resolutions.

yep graphic cards have more memory today then my old commodore 64

 BP>> i have lost how to tell kernel to use the radeonfb first in the
 BP>> boot step, i like to see my penguins first mode :=)

 MK> Same with inteldrmfb.  vesafb is the same as it ever was - vga = 803 

so simple ?

 MK> in the boot menu which gives me a 1280x1024 with 8 32-bpp penguins at 
 MK> boot up on the machine I am currently typing this reply on.

ok, will add it to next kernel version here to test

 MK> <Esc>:r !lscpu

 MK> Architecture:          x86_64
 MK> CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
 MK> Byte Order:            Little Endian
 MK> CPU(s):                8
 MK> On-line CPU(s) list:   0-7
 MK> Thread(s) per core:    1
 MK> Core(s) per socket:    8
 MK> Socket(s):             1
 MK> NUMA node(s):          1
 MK> Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
 MK> CPU family:            6
 MK> Model:                 77
 MK> Model name:            Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2758  @ 2.40GHz
 MK> Stepping:              8
 MK> CPU MHz:               2400.000
 MK> CPU max MHz:           2400.0000
 MK> CPU min MHz:           1200.0000
 MK> BogoMIPS:              4800.19
 MK> Virtualization:        VT-x
 MK> L1d cache:             24K
 MK> L1i cache:             32K
 MK> L2 cache:              1024K
 MK> NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-7
 MK> Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep 
 MK> mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht 
 MK> tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts 
 MK> rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 
 MK> monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe 
 MK> popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes rdrand lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch arat epb 
 MK> dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid tsc_adjust smep erms

   ----- lscpu begins -----
Architecture:          i686
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                2
On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
Thread(s) per core:    2
Core(s) per socket:    1
Socket(s):             1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            15
Model:                 2
Model name:            Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Stepping:              9
CPU MHz:               2593.317
BogoMIPS:              5187.06
   ----- lscpu ends -----

 BP>> you beat me on soekris images and bash

 MK> I am sure I could get a compactflash on it's ide cf interface to boot 
 MK> up.  I checked to make sure the advertised network chipset(s) are 
 MK> still supported and they are.  NS DP83816 if Soekris's brag sheet is 
 MK> to be believed.  Should work except no need for graphics on there.  I 
 MK> would just use it for remote logins over one of it's network 
 MK> interfaces and not bother with a monitor ... or keyboard for that 
 MK> matter.

yep that std netcard on soekris, for the 100Mbit ones

dont know the gigabit driver name

 MK> Should all work, and as long as it boots, then for sure WeBeBashing.  
 MK> :-)

make a catalyst image setup is in progress with gentoo, i just wished soekris
teams was more open source minded to support there own hardwares

 MK> Life is good,
 MK> Maurice

 MK> ... Don't cry for me I have vi.
 MK> -+- GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
 MK>  + Origin: Pointy Stick Society - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001.0)


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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