Re: NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support
Dale K Dicks said:
> I want to be able to use vga=791 as a kernel option on boot. Currently
> if I try to do this I get a black screen so I have to use vga=7.
>
> I have an NVidia Geforce 3 card. I tried to cat /dev/fb0 but I get:
>
> cat: /dev/fb0: No such device
>
> I looked through all the kernel options and didn't see framebuffer
> support. Am I missing something? Is it even possible to use
> framebuffer with an NVidia card?
it should be possible, but it may not be accelerated(acceleration is
not usually an issue if you just want the fancy bootup stuff.
you need at least CONFIG_FB compiled into the kernel, chances are
more stuff as well, I don't use framebuffer on my systems but
my redhat 7.3's 2.4.18 configuration:
CONFIG_FB=y
# CONFIG_FB_E1355 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2_FIFO_DISCONNECT is not set
CONFIG_FB_PM2_PCI=y
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_FB_HGA=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_I2C=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MAVEN=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_PROC is not set
CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC=m
CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT_VAIO_LCD=y
# CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m
CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1=m
CONFIG_FB_SIS=m
CONFIG_FB_SIS_300=y
CONFIG_FB_SIS_315=y
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_HGA=m
CONFIG_FB_PM3=m
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set
CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m
CONFIG_FB_CLGEN=m
CONFIG_FB_PM2=m
CONFIG_FB_SIS=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G450 is not set
CONFIG_FB_ATY=m
CONFIG_FB_ATY128=m
CONFIG_FB_3DFX=m
CONFIG_FBCON_MFB=m
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
my SuSE 8 system which also runs 2.4.18 has these options:
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m
CONFIG_FB_CLGEN=m
CONFIG_FB_PM2=m
CONFIG_FB_PM2_FIFO_DISCONNECT=y
CONFIG_FB_PM2_PCI=y
CONFIG_FB_PM3=m
CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000=m
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=m
CONFIG_FB_HGA=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_I2C=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MAVEN=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G450=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY=m
CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m
CONFIG_FB_ATY128=m
CONFIG_FB_SIS=m
CONFIG_FB_SIS_300=y
CONFIG_FB_SIS_315=y
CONFIG_FB_3DFX=m
CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1=m
CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT=m
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN=y
CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_FBCON_MFB=m
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2=m
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=m
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
CONFIG_FBCON_AFB=m
CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM=m
CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2=m
CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4=m
CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8=m
CONFIG_FBCON_MAC=m
CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=m
CONFIG_FBCON_VGA=m
CONFIG_FBCON_HGA=m
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y
my 2.2.19 systems all run with FB disabled :)
nate
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