Re: aty128fb

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:28 -0700, Michael wrote:
> I am still unable to start my computer with video=aty128fb and X is 
> still complaining about no frame buffer devices, even though I have 
> /dev/fb1 - 9 or 8.  I am utterly frustrated at this, and I have found no 
> help in anything I have read on line I can pass video=aty128fb argument 
> on the command line, but I don't think it does anything.  I even 
> installed fbset and ran the command to output the configuration needed 
> for X, but didn't understand it, is someone having similar problems?

Why would you boot with "video=aty128fb" ? If aty128fb is in the kernel,
it will take over automatically. If it doesn't work, then the kernel you
are using may be lacking that driver...

Ben.