Re: alpha server 8 5/500

[Ivan Jager <aij+nospam@andrew.cmu.edu>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, mel kravitz wrote:
> Hi,
> First-thanks for your reply.
> 1)When i boot with stock kernel 2.6.22-3-alpha-smp ,i go ->into X-session
> (gnome-session,  gdm is installed) .

Hmm, but before starting X, does it use a framebuffer driver or text mode? 
You may need to look closely, or maybe look at dmesg. You could also press 
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go back to a normal console.

> 2)My video card is 'glint' driver(pm2 card).driver in/etc/X11/ xorg.conf is
> 'glint'.
> 3)I am not using 'fbdev' as driver in xorg.conf
> 4)In kernel .config file i have all the graphics options enabled that i
> normally would need.

Does that include CONFIG_FB_PM2?

> 5) there is no /dev/fb0, #ls -l /dev/fb0 -> /dev/null on my box?

Not existing is different from a symlink to /dev/null. Anyways, does it 
not exist with either kernel?

Are you using the UseFBDev option in xorg.conf?

Have you very carefully looked through /var/log/Xorg.0.log and compared it 
to what you get when it does work?

Ivan

> On Jan 16, 2008 2:49 PM, Ivan Jager <aij+nospam@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, mel kravitz wrote:
> > > Try lenny or testing disk 1, i just booted and installed testing on a
> > Titan
> > > -ES45, out of the box everything worked. On another note building a
> > custom
> > > linux-2.26.23-12 kernel builds fine and boots but xinit fails with 'No
> > > /dev/fb0' support, this of course is xorg. All graphics/ fbdev kernel
> > > options are turned on.
> > > Any help here would be appreciated.
> >
> > Forgive me for asking the obvious questions, but:
> >
> > What graphics card do you have?
> >
> > Why does xinit care about /dev/fb0? Are you using the framebuffer driver
> > in xorg? If so, why aren't you using the driver for your video card? Are
> > you using the option that tries to do framebuffer magic when switching
> > VTs?
> >
> > Is one of the kernel's framebuffer drivers getting used? IE, is your
> > console in text mode or graphics mode? Which framebuffer driver was
> > getting used with the previous kernel?
> >
> > Does /dev/fb0 exist? Are you running udev?
> >
> > From the little you said, my best guess would be that you are using the
> > fbdev xorg driver, and aren't getting the kernel framebuffer initalized
> > for some reason.
> >
> > Ivan