From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting FB to work in Console
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:09:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADO5Rbg2TC1hXiiEBpfcnnPKNY0goQm4jGaMgzuLL6sOJQ1nMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADO5RbhunU1X7mWwGDbVRc1FSPKBaLudAVav0TMkBoQ_1zp0Mw@mail.gmail.com>
I am sorry Anatolij,
I should have said that I DID run sudo update-grub and then I rebooted.
When it rebooted, I still have the "no /dev/fb0" error.
I apologize for not being thourough in my words.
David
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:09:53 -0500 (EST)
> David J Ring Jr <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> I found a line in /etc/default/grub which has nomodeset in it and I
>> disabled it.
>>
>> Here is what I have in that file now.
>>
>> I have a feeling that something in grub is not right.
>
> Did you run 'sudo update-grub' command after changing the /etc/default/grub
> file ? If not, then the actual grub configuration file was not
> updated and you probably still have nomodeset on the kernel command
> line.
>
>> # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
>> # /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
>>
>> GRUB_DEFAULT=0
>> GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
>> GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
>> #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset"
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
> ...
>> What do you think? Is this where nomodeset is and does it look like this
>> should work? I still cannot get /dev/fb0
>
> It should work. If you additionally run 'sudo update-grub', the grub
> configuration file /boot/grub/grub.cfg will be updated. Then nomodeset
> shouldn't be passed on the kernel command line any more.
>
> Anatolij
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-14 20:09 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
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. [this message]
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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