on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:10:29PM -0400, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote: > | > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > | > [video card specs, etc] > | > | Does anyone have any ideas? This is really starting to wear me down. I'd > | > | love to get this laptop working. > | > > | > Check out the framebuffer support in the kernel. > | > | Is it necessary to explicitly add FB kernel support on x86? My > | understanding from the kernel docs was "no". > > My desktop machine is a Duron 750. My config file includes the > following : > > # > # Frame-buffer support > # > CONFIG_FB=y > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y My understanding is that all the following are required *only* on non-x86 hardware: > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y > CONFIG_FB_VGA16=m > CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y > CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y > CONFIG_FBCON_MFB=y > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2=y > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=y > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y > CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=m > CONFIG_FBCON_VGA=m > CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y > CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y > > > The stock kernel has the following important difference : > > # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set > > > So if you have a VESA compliant video card that is not one of the > accelerated cards (Matrox, some ATI, some SiS) then you don't have > framebuffer support. For the PIII laptop at work (ATI Rage Mobility > P/M) I had to recomile the kernel and enable VESA framebuffer for it > to work. I did try and give the fb options to the stock kernel but it > didn't work. Hmmm... Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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