Re: Console or X4 on /dev/fb1?
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > I'm in trouble, something between the Mach64 onboard video and the VGA->Sun
> > monitor cable just lost it. Fortunately, I have a MacPicasso card which
> > doesn't have a working native framebuffer, but works somewhat with offb
> > (640x480, jacked up colors, but oh well). But I can't get the console or
> > X4 to come up on it. With X3 I could do "FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx", but
> > that doesn't seem to work with X4.
>
> Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
>
> in the Device Section. This is finally documented in 4.0.2. :)
Thank you so much, it's really ugly but it works and I can get work done now!
> For the console, you need the video=map: kernel option. video=map:1 puts all
> VTs on /dev/fb1, video=map:10 puts VT1 on /dev/fb1, VT2 on /dev/fb0, VT3 on
> /dev/fb1 and so on.
Hmm, this doesn't seem to work for me, is it a 2.4 thing?
> After bootup you can use con2fbmap to change the mapping.
Cool, I'll try it.
Thank you so much!! If we meet someday I owe you dinner- again. :-)
-Adam P.
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