From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:09:40 +0000 Subject: Re: Getting FB to work in Console Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org 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 David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA SOWP, VWOA, OOTC, FISTS, CW-Ops, CFO, A1-OP, ex-FOC 1271 ARRL-LM Chat Skype: djringjr MSN: djringjr@msn.com AIM: N1EA icq: 27380609 Radio-Officers Google Group -- Marine Morse Historic Recordings Page On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Anatolij Gustschin wrote: > Hello David, > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:09:53 -0500 (EST) > David J Ring Jr 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/gr= ub > 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=3D0 >> GRUB_TIMEOUT=3D5 >> GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=3D`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` >> #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=3D"nomodeset" >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=3D"" > ... >> What do you think? =A0Is this where nomodeset is and does it look like t= his >> should work? =A0I 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 >