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Re: Bug#182045: No framebuffer?



On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:35:09PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> l?r 2003-02-22 klockan 21.54 skrev Herbert Xu:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:03:19PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> > > Package: kernel-image-2.4.20-386-udeb
> > > Version: 2.4.20-4
> > > 
> > > I can't get any framebuffer running in debian-installer. Now, I don't
> > > know much about this, but I guess the problem is that the vga and vesa
> > > framebuffers are compiled as modules and not included in the kernel?
> > > 
> > > It would be nice to get a framebuffer running so we can get proper
> > > unicode i18n working.

We're going to need framebuffer support for libdirectfb-gtk as well. 

> > 
> > Both them work as modules.  Would you like one modules package containing
> > them both or two separate ones?
> 
> Uhm, I don't really know much about this... Say I have vesafb as a
> module, how and when do I get the framebuffer running?
> 

Unfortunately, I don't know much either, and our packages are still
in an early state. 



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