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Re: X server fails to start after netinstall of Etch on Ultra 60



Steve Jones wrote:
On May 28, 12:30 pm, Ulrich Teichert <kryp...@ulrich-teichert.org>
wrote:
Hi,

[del]>> Did you try to load the firmware manually with the
command  "/usr/sbin/afbinit /dev/fb0 /usr/lib/afb.ucode" ?
After that try to start the xserver with "startx".
[del]
Yes, I should have mentioned that I did try running that command
manually, and I got the same error message:
mmap user regs: Invalid argument
[del]

Some, maybe silly, questions:

1. Are you root when you're running afbinit?
2. Does /dev/fb0 exist?
3. Does it point to the right card?

HTH,
Uli
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Thank you for the "silly" questions.  I value those just as highly as
the others.

1. Yes, I always run afbinit as root.
2. Yes, I know /dev/fb0 exists because when I 'ls -l' on it, I get:
     crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2007-05-28 14:46 /dev/fb0
3. I don't know for sure; however there is no other 'fb...' in /dev,
and there is nothing else in /dev that belongs to the 'video' group.
I have only one graphics card (I double-checked), and Debian reports
finding an Elite3D card, so I am assuming /dev/fb0 points to the right
card.




http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346085 reports this.
I just googled for "the error mesg you got", you can figure out if you need the patch for afbinit, a newer version or a kernel upgrade from the bug comments I think.
hgg



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