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Re: Get vesafb to work (was: nvidia-drivers in testing)



On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:55:02PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
| "Daniel T. Chen" <chenda@cs.unc.edu> writes:
| 
| > Rumours are that vesafb works just fine, though.
| 
| Ok, I compiled a new kernel 2.4.12, disable rivafb and enable
| vesafb. All problems with the new nvidia-drivers seems to be gone.
| 
| But I cannot get the vesafb to work.
| 
| After booting there is no Tux-Logo anymore and when I try to fbset
| something I get the error: cannot open /dev/fb0
| 
| which is there 
| ls -l
| crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,   0 30. Nov 2000  /dev/fb0

This only means there is an inode with that name.  The existence of
device files is meaningless unless you are using devfs.
 
| Do I miss something? This is my .config

What about bootloader config?  Add "vga=0x31A" to your kernel command
line.

-D



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