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Re: Bug#182045: No framebuffer?



On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:35:09PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> 
> 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?

You should load vesafb unconditionally.  It will succeed iff the
kernel is using a VESA mode.  You should load vga16 as a fall back
if vesafb fails.

I guess one package makes more sense...
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