Re: Enabling frame-buffer support in debian kernel

[Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:51:13PM +0000, Steve Webster wrote:
> I'm trying to enable frame-buffer support while configuring 
> kernel-source-2.4.18, but all I get is a greyed-out list of choices in 
> xconfig.
> 
> This is what I've done....
[...] 
> d) in /usr/src/linux did "make-kpkg kernel_image --added-patches 
> debianlogo,preempt" which adds the
>             debian patches and executes xconfig
> 
> ...and that's about as far as I get. I can't see what choices I've made 
> that could have disabled frame-buffer and I can't find any relevent 
> patches. 

You don't need a special patch.  Try enabling an option that you have
not enabled before.

> Has anyone got any ideas how I can get this working?

Select "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers".

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