Re: xfree86 + ati problem with 2.6.0 kernel

["Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler" <hurschler@gmx.de>]

Thanks, that worked, I used dpkg-reconfigure to tell the server not to use the 
framebuffer.

Chris

On Sunday 18 January 2004 20:22, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004, at 19:20 +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using an ATI Rage 129 Pro Graphics card with no problems with the
> > 2.4.23 kernel and and xserver-xfree8 4.2.1-15.  I tried the same sith
> > the 2.6.0 kernel and I get an error with the fbdevhw sub module of ati
> > which is "unable to find a valid framebuffer device".  The complete
> > log-file and lsmod can be seen below, I've also included XF86config.
>
> You probably didn't enable the framebuffer support you need in the
> kernel you built.
>
> But I have never used the framebuffer device and it's very
> easy to configure the X server not to use it. Run
>
>    dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
>
> as root and when given the framebuffer prompt, tell it to not use it.
>
> Otherwise I suppose you could just go into the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> configuration and change it manually by setting
>
>    Option	"UseFBDev"		"true"
>
> to
>
>    Option	"UseFBDev"		"false"

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