Re: fbdev driver on Wheezy
On 2015-03-15 18:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote:
> Im trying to get Wheezy with lightdm and Xfce to work on an old kiosk
> machine with a Silicon Motion SM712 chip. Currently X just turns the
> screen off as soon as it starts and from the Googling Ive done it
> seems this is a common problem with both the silicon motion driver and
> the generic vesa driver and the solution appears to be using the fbdev
> driver instead?
>
> How can I force X to use this driver under Wheezy, there doesnt even
> seem to be an xorg.conf file anywhere?
You can create your own, the following four lines are sufficient:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Section "Device"
Identifier "n"
Driver "fbdev"
EndSection
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Save this as /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and X will use the fbdev driver.
Good luck,
Sven
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