Debian Well Underway

[Erik Heil]

Hi their,
What I can tell you is that framebuffer support i.e. /dev/fb is not
present in at least 2.6.18 by default.  This is using the stock Debian
kernel and using a Geforece2MX video board.  Either framebuffer support is
not in the kernel, or their are problems with that type of particular
hardware.  This was, in fact, the culprit of my display problems I posted
about efroe.  It had nothing to do with the auto detection code that was
introduced between Sarge and Lenny.  Rather, the X server couldn't write
to the nonexistent framebuffer device, so of course it would generate an
error.  Log messages in this case were not helpful though.

--Erik

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:55:03 -0400
> From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh at ftml.net>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: Debian Well Underway
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> I wish I could help you, but my installation is a really simple one. I
> used Samuel's mini-beep.iso, and selected "standard" from the
> configuration menu, and that's all it took. No extra packages relating
> to frame buffers or displays, other than what the "standard" choice
> implied. I switched from lilo to grub a long time ago, so I can't
> compare my loader configuration to yours directly.   But for what it's
> worth, here's the kernel line from my grub menu.lst:
>
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=791
> quiet
>
> That seemed to wrap just now, but it's all one line in the
> configuration file. There's also an initrd, but again it was done for
> me by magic, I did nothing to modify or enhance it.
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:48:11AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > Yes, it looks like the exact same kernel here.  Wonder if I need to
> > have some frame buffer packages installed or something.  I began
> > looking at the console related stuff but haven't uncovered anything
> > yet.  Still looking for ideas.
> >
>
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