Re: Re: Framebuffer and Kernel issues

["Greg Grotsky" <spikeygg@hotmail.com>]

So I've been trying to figure out the console framebuffer still without 
success.  I have some interesting information though.  Whenever I load the 
vesafb module at the command prompt by doing a "modprobe vesafb" I get this 
error (I've already loaded fbcon, and the three cfb* modules):

vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6

Does anyone know what this means?  I googled on it and it came up with a few 
hits but they were no help.  When I try to do an fbset after loading the 
vesafb module it still says "/dev/fb0 not found".  I'm at a loss.  I found 
out something else interesting.  When I unload the vesafb module it gives me 
this:

Device 'vesafb0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must 
be fixed.
Badness in device_release at drivers/base/core.c:85

Call Trace:<ffffffff801b96e4>{kobject_cleanup+100} 
<ffffffff801b9740>{kobject_release+0}
       <ffffffff801b9a8e>{kref_put+126} 
<ffffffffa06e0170>{:vesafb:vesafb_exit+16}
       <ffffffff80149292>{sys_delete_module+354} 
<ffffffff801606a2>{do_munmap+290}
       <ffffffff8016071a>{sys_munmap+90} 
<ffffffff8011171a>{system_call+126}

I don't know if anyone cares about this because mostly when you have the 
vesafb module loaded you won't be unloading it but I dunno, maybe it's 
another clue.

Thanks,

-Greg