Debian Well Underway

[Steve Holmes]

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Interesting observation.  I just suspended mutt and went into /dev and
sure enough, I have no fb device.  I don't really know anything about
framebuffer support so don't know about needing a /dev/fb or not to
enable larger screen sizes at the console.  Even so, vga=extended
wouldn't yield me 50 lines either.  Yet when I come into my box from a
remote ssh session, I use vt220 emulation and I get 42 rows and 111
columns.  I just can't seem to figure out how to do that with a linux
console.  While on the ssh session, $TERM shows VT220; while at home
locally, $TERM shows linux.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:57:13AM -0400, Erik Heil wrote:
> 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.
> >     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > 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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