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In order to use uvesafb in PLD AC (kernel-desktop), you will need to build a few packages:
- linux-libc-headers.spec,

- klibc.spec,

- lrmi.spec,

- v86d.spec (–with klibc),

And use geninitrd from svn trunk (at lease r776), or wait for geninitrd-9000.12 – should be released soon if noone complains.

Once you have these package built and installed, set FBMODULE=”uvesafb” in /etc/sysconfig/geninitrd and provide apropriate options in /etc/modprobe.conf. The very basic setup can be just:
options uvesafb mode=1400×1050-32
For more options, see
$ /sbin/modinfo uvesafb

After that, run geninitrd as you normally do:
# /sbin/geninitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-desktop $kernel_ver

Works for me.

ToDo:
- diskless PLD part 2 (will be a short post),
- post some photos from Pingwinaria 2008,
- be trendy and write somthing about git …