To use fbset one needs to know some modes. There is no easy way to know them without installing and configuring X or reading some VESA manual or somesuch. And these do not come in the format that is required by the crappy fb interface. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge fbset Actual Results: no way to change video modes as fbset does not know any Expected Results: /etc/fb.modes with some standard modes Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-src i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-src i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/sh are/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/ tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks maketest nostrip sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi aim alsa audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdb cdparanoia cdr c pdflib crypt cscope ctype cups curl dbus dbx debug dedicated dga dio dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdre ad eds emboss encode ethereal examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash flatfile foomaticdb fortran ftp g b gcj gd gdbm ggi gif ginac glut gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened howl iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inifile ipv6 jabber javascript jpeg kdexdeltas kerberos lcms ldap libg++ li bwww lm_sensors lua mad maildir matroska matrox mbox mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn n as ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl osc oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline recode ruby samba sasl sdl session sharedmem shorten skey slp sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg sysvipc tcltk tcpd test tetex theora threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd videos vorbis wifi wmf xface xml xml2 xmms xos d xpm xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
fbset installs a bunch of example fb.modes in /usr/share/doc/fbset-2.1
