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From: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting FB to work in Console
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:39:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111113223925.7be809ec@wker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADO5RbhunU1X7mWwGDbVRc1FSPKBaLudAVav0TMkBoQ_1zp0Mw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:16:52 -0500 (EST)
David J Ring Jr <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:

> OK so how do I get a frame buffer driver loaded?

Check if some frame buffer drivers are installed
in your system, so e.g. run

ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video

to see if there are any frame buffer driver modules
installed.

Then you have to select the suitable driver for your
graphic card and load it by running

modprobe drivername

> I don't have any backlisted framebuffer drivers, what is stopping me from 
> loading a frame buffer driver?
>
> Does anyone know what I have to do?


Usually the driver should be loaded automatically if
it is installed. Maybe some error happened while loading
the driver. Dump the kernel log messages by running dmesg
and check if there was an attempt to load the driver for
your graphic card.

Anatolij

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-13 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-12 23:42 Getting FB to work in Console D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2011-11-13  1:00 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-11-13  2:46 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-13 16:57 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-11-13 18:58 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-13 19:11 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-13 20:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-11-13 20:11 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-11-13 20:53 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-11-13 21:17 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-13 21:21 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-13 21:39 ` Anatolij Gustschin [this message]
2011-11-13 21:44 ` Bruno Prémont
2011-11-13 22:48 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-13 22:50 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-14  0:15 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-11-14  0:32 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-11-14  1:10 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-14 18:58 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-11-14 20:09 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2011-11-14 20:25 ` Bruno Prémont
2011-11-14 21:50 ` David J Ring Jr
2011-11-14 23:38 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.

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