What is the driver for a framebuffer of a Hercules card? (was: Re: How do I get a /dev/fb0 from my Hercules Kyro?)

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:02:44PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0200, wim wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > >On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote:
> > >
> > >>>I'm one of those poor wretches with a Hercules Prophet Kyro
> > >>>PCI video card on an aging 233 MHz Pentium. the one that isn't
> > >>>VESA, or even VGA, but EGA (remember those?). I found a report
> > >>>dated 2002 that someone got such a setup to work with
> > >>>the framebuffer driver fbdev (though of course no acceleration)
> > >>>and tried configuring my x server accordingly.
> > >>>All went well, until, when I ran startx, the message
> > >>>
> > >>>(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
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> > >
> > >This machine could be a decent X-terminal (ceratinly better than the one
> > >I used at work fifteen years ago) if I could only get this frame buffer
> > >to work.
> > >
> > >-- hendrik
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Are you using udev?
> 
> I'm using whatever Debian sarge installed by default just three days ago.
> How do I find out whether I'm using udev?
> 
> > Did you loaded the correct module for your framebuffer?
> 
> Probably not, unless it was autodetected.  I suspect that's
> the problem.  But what *is* the correct module for the
> framebuffer for the Hercule Kyro Prophet series of video cards,
> anyway?
> 
> -- hendrik

Back from vacation, and once more wondering -- just what *is*
the correct module for the framebuffer for a Hercules
Kyro Prophet video card.

-- hendrik