Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody
Arlie Stephens wrote:
The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of
which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the
kernel's framebuffer.
Have you tried manually editing the file? Comment out the UseFBDev
option below. There are two other modules not found found errors you
may need to address. See below.
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
<snip>
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "pex5"
This line is causing an error, comment it out for now.
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "xie"
This line is causing an error, comment it out for now.
EndSection
<snip>
Section "Device"
Identifier "RIVA TNT2"
Driver "nv"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
This line is causing an error, comment it out for now.
Errors noted
(II) LoadModule: "pex5"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module pex5
(II) UnloadModule: "pex5"
<snip>
(EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module xie
(II) UnloadModule: "xie"
(EE) Failed to load module "xie" (module does not exist, 0)
<snip>
(WW) open /dev/fb1: No such device
(WW) open /dev/fb2: No such device
(WW) open /dev/fb3: No such device
(WW) open /dev/fb4: No such device
(WW) open /dev/fb5: No such device
(WW) open /dev/fb6: No such device
(WW) open /dev/fb7: No such device
(EE) Unable to find a valid framebuffer device
(EE) NV(0): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult warnings and/or errors above for possible reasons
(you may have to look at the server log to see warnings)
HTH
Wackojacko
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