Bug 51855 – Providing links compiled with framebuffer support on livecd

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Leander 2004-05-23 13:59:09 UTC]

I just thought it would be useful to have links compiled with framebuffer support on the livecds of gentoo, since framebuffer is activated by default. Reading the docs would be really easier as well as browsing the gentoo forums.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-05-24 06:21:21 UTC]

Is the framebuffer support triggered by a USE flag?  If so, we should be able to do that easily.

[Comment 2 Leander 2004-05-24 11:26:50 UTC]

The fbcon USE flag is used by the ebuild. And as you have to specify the option -g in the command line to activate the graphical mode, this won't bother people without a frambeuffer.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-05-24 12:03:08 UTC]

zhen: should we put fbcon on the livecd-stage1 by default?  I can see the value in this, and I don't think it pulls in much in the way of dependencies.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-05-24 14:31:53 UTC]

OK.... nevermind that, fbcon is in USE.  Instead, we need to add links to the livecd-stage1 so it gets recompiled with the right USE flags.

I have done this on my configs, so I am assigning to you.

[Comment 5 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-05-26 14:21:33 UTC]

already done - check the livecd spec templates linked from the release guidelines