From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anatolij Gustschin Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:57:54 +0000 Subject: Re: Getting FB to work in Console Message-Id: <20111113175754.0c2903f7@wker> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Hello David, On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:45:17 -0500 (EST) David J Ring Jr wrote: ... > Any suggestions? > > I have changed grub to give me a large 640x480 screen and that works but > and it gives me color say if I have bash add color to folders and > executables - and mc comes up in color but no links2 -g in color because > no /dev/fb0. > > Any other suggestions? > > I made my username member of its own group and also tty and video. > > As I said before I tried mknod and that worked but when I rebooted > /dev/fb0 was gone. > > I tried the mknod command again and it created /dev/fb0 > which is owned by root and in root group. I changed the group to video. > > Now root has rwx permissions the group can read and everyone can read. You have to add write permissions for the group also. Check if /dev/fb0 can be accessed if you create it by using sudo mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 -m 660 sudo chown :video /dev/fb0 > I run links2 -g and it still says it cannot access /dev/fb0. > > If I reboot /dev/fb0 will disappear. > > I'm stuck! What is the output of following commands on your system? cat /proc/fb cat /proc/cmdline dmesg | grep vesa Anatolij