507430 – Framebuffer video line seems to go nowhere

Bug 507430 - Framebuffer video line seems to go nowhere

Summary: Framebuffer video line seems to go nowhere

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

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Reported:	2014-04-11 16:10 UTC by Grant Goodyear
Modified:	2015-01-03 09:10 UTC (History)
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Description Grant Goodyear 2014-04-11 16:10:33 UTC

This may be a dup of bug #293455.

The Optional: Framebuffer section in the handbook (Ch 10) details the video line that one may provide to the kernel, along with an admonition to "Write this setting down; you will need it shortly."

I assume that most people coming to Gentoo now will use grub2 in order to have EFI support, but the framebuffer video line isn't mentioned at all in Sec. 10.b.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-01-03 09:10:17 UTC

I think the framebuffer section is no longer present in the handbook (probably through bug 293455). There is a mention of a video= as an example on how to add kernel boot options though (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Bootloader), but that is just as an example and imo doesn't confuse people.