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Bug 132186 - Using xen-sources can't change console resolution
Summary: Using xen-sources can't change console resolution
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2006-05-03 16:58 UTC by Mirko
Modified: 2006-05-04 01:52 UTC (History)
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Description Mirko 2006-05-03 16:58:19 UTC 
Portage 2.1_pre9-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-rc5-xen x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-rc5-xen x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r1
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -m64"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -m64"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="it_IT.utf8"
LC_ALL="it_IT.utf8"
LINGUAS="it"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdr cli crypt cscope ctype cups dbus dlloader dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl ieee1394 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mng mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php pic png pppd python quicktime radius rar readline reflection samba scanner sdl session spell spl sse3 ssl subtitles svg symlink tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd vorbis wifi xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xprint xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_it userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS

Using xen-sources I can't change console resolution. Same problem using xen-sources-2.6.16-rc5 or xen-sources-2.6.16-r1.
Usually I use vesafb but it's the same using nvidiafb.

I'm sorry for my bad english.
Comment 1 Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-04 01:52:21 UTC 
AFAIK, Xen doesn't support framebuffer consoles yet.

See http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2005-07/msg00150.html