From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gutko Subject: Re: Console Framebuffer Issues / GeForce4 - Red Hat stock kernel 2.4.20-13.9 Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 19:58:13 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3ECFB2B5.60004@poczta.onet.pl> References: <200305241339.23874.rkvaughan@carolina.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp3.poczta.onet.pl ([213.180.130.29]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19JdHq-0007zD-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 10:58:30 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200305241339.23874.rkvaughan@carolina.rr.com> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Robert Keith Vaughan wrote: > Hello: > > I apologize if this is the wrong list to post to, but it was suggested in a > post I dug up through a google search. I normally like to figure things out > for myself, but this one is really starting to tick me off. > > I am using Red Hat 9.0 with the stock 2.4.20-13.9 kernel. I am attempting to > get framebuffer support working on the console with little success. The > relevant PC specs are as follows: > > Athlon XP 2000+ > 1 GB RAM > Geforce4 ti4400 > >>>From what I have been able to ascertain, vesafb is compiled into this kernel > instead of loading as a module. I looked at the information for the rivafb > driver and it doesn't appear to support the GeForce4 cards. What info I have > been able to dig up suggests that you can get non-accelerated framebuffer > support for the GeForce4 using vesafb. I cannot, however, get it to work. > > I have tried to pass the following kernel arguments via grub. All I get is a > blank screen" > > video=vesafb,xres:1024,yres:768,bpp:16 vga=791 > > AND (just in case I COULD get the rivafb module to support it) > > video=rivafb,xres:1024,yres:768,bpp:16 vga=791 > > I have played around with the bpp and vga= settings (trying 8, 16 and 24 > respectively) . No luck. Get a blank console up until kdm loads. And I > don't see anthing in the dmesg logs either. Sigh. > > When I issue fbset I get the following error: > > open /dev/fb0: No such device > > Which leads me to believe that the stock kernel isn't seeing a framebuffer > device despite the fact that vesafb is compiled in. > > I have not yet tried to compile a custom kernel precisely because of 1.) > vesafb is complied into this kernel, AND 2.) Nothing I have read seems to > indicate that compiling rivafb into the kernel will help with my issue ( and > I have not been able to get rivafb to load as a module in any event...) > > So, I am stumped. I'm sure its something stupid on my part....but could > anyone tell me A.) what I am doing wrong here, and/or B.) if anyone has > gotten console framebuffer support running on a stock Red Hat kernel... > > Thanks for putting up with the long winded (and I sure stupid) questions.. > > Keith Vaughan > try passing "mem=512M" to kernel in lilo. It worked for me...I also have 1GB of ram ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge