Bug 507430

Summary:	Framebuffer video line seems to go nowhere
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Grant Goodyear <g2boojum>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.