Re: XFree86 / framebuffer
Dear Henry,
well done, when the penguin is appearing, everything should be alright :-)
So, the next thing to do is to check the resolution and depth setting in
the XF86Config-4
look for a statement like "Default Depth" or "Depth" accompanied by a
Resolution description "1024x768"
it should say:
use 1024x768 with bit depth 8.
refer to the prior postings of the howtos and XF86Config's from the list
(google should find Ralf Hildebrandt's one for example :-)
good luck
bye,
Alex
> Hello Alexander,
>
> At 30-Sep-02 you wrote:
>
>> first: when the system is coming up, do you see the fb penguin?
>> if yes, your card is supported
>
> yes
>
>
>> second: apt-get install fbset, show me the output of fbset
>> look at the xy resolution and bit depth
>
> mode "1024x768"
> geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8
> timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <- ???
> rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
> endmode
>
> Frame buffer device information:
> Name : <- ???
> Address : 0xf9000000
> Size : 16777216
> Type : PACKED PIXELS
> Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR
> XPanStep : 0
> YPanStep : 0
> YWrapStep : 0
> LineLength : 2048
> MMIO Address: 0xf8100000
> MMIO Size : 4194304
> Accelerator : No
>
>
> The timing-values and the missing "Name" look strange (fbset -x reports
> "DotClock unknown"). Is that really o.k. ?
> Starting "kde2", I get the message "xsetroot: unable to open display
> '' ". Looks like the missing "Name"-value causes the problem.
>
>
>> third: use the latest kernel from testing/unstable, put it in your
>> sources.list and apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.19-32 (if i
>> remember correctly,
>
> Unfortunately I only have a 56k-modem connection, so I prefer to stick
> to kernel-source-2.4.18-hppa. The old 2.4.17 from the Woody-CD-set made
> the same problems with "make dep" as the last version of 2.4.18. It's
> hard to believe, that such a problem still hangs around not being
> corrected ...
>
> Oh, my original posting contained an error in the directoryname : it
> should be
>
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18-hppa/arch/parisc/kdb (instead of kbd).
>
> Could perhaps anyone mail me it's contents (I've got only the directory
> CVS) ?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Henry Schimmer
>
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