getting nvidiafb to work

[Weedman]

i compiled my kernel (2.6.15) with nvidiafb support built in. but when i pass the vga= thing to the kernel, all i end up with is a black screen.

could it be from the fact i only enabled the nvidiafb driver rather that the vesafb driver. my graphics card is a tnt2.
also, could it be from the fact i recompiled my kernel with framebuffer support without cleaning any of the code up (ie make clean)?

ive tried putting in video=nvidiafb vga=788 but that doesnt work.

pleae help me, my first install of gentoo seems to be going well except for this.

/weed

[gruven]

i compiled my kernel (2.6.15) with nvidiafb support built in. but when i pass the vga= thing to the kernel, all i end up with is a black screen.

could it be from the fact i only enabled the nvidiafb driver rather that the vesafb driver. my graphics card is a tnt2.
also, could it be from the fact i recompiled my kernel with framebuffer support without cleaning any of the code up (ie make clean)?

ive tried putting in video=nvidiafb vga=788 but that doesnt work.

pleae help me, my first install of gentoo seems to be going well except for this.

/weed

I would suggest to just use the vesafb-tng driver instead. If you ever want to use the binary Nvidia drivers for 3D, then you won't be able to use nvidia-fb anyway.

[Weedman]

i changed it to vesafb according to the framebuffer instructions from the gentoo site.

thanks gruven,

/weed