Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

[ha shao <hashao@china.com>]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:50:55AM -0900, erbenson@alaska.net wrote:
> > 
> > fbset should do the job. But when I run fbset on my debian 2.2
> > box, it said: "open /dev/fb0: no such device" but I have: 
> > 
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,   0 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb0
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,  32 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb1
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,  64 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb2
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,  96 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb3
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 128 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb4
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 160 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb5
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 192 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb6
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 224 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb7
> > 
> > Don't know what's wrong. you might have better luck.
> 
> are you really using a framebuffer?  or just that vga text mode hack
> in lilo?  
> 
> no such device means there is no device, not no device FILE.  `No such
> file or directory' is != `No such device'
> 

Yes, you are right. Thanks