Framebuffer Support Missing

[John covici]

Sometimes you need a boot parameter to get the frame buffer going, or
if it is modules you need some parameters.  There are various versions
of framebuffer, so this will depend on which ones you have.  I usually
build the frame buffer into the kernel for that reason.

on Friday 10/24/2008 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote
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 > I'm sure the initramfs is being used because when I added the spkout
 > module to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, speech came quite a bit
 > earlier in the boot sequence.  The only other thing I can possibly
 > guess is X had not been installed at that time.  I am now in the
 > process of installing gnome (I chose the entire gnome desktop) and
 > perhaps more x stuff is needed to fully use framebuffers.  I've been
 > anxious to get gnome/orca going anyway so am about to give up on
 > getting framebuffer support going in the plain text console
 > environment.  Oh, the 'most' option is specified in the initrd config
 > file so you're right; framebuffers are supposed to be chosen but I see
 > no mention of fb or framebuffer in dmesg at all.  So I really don't
 > have a clue.  
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