Re: Getting FB to work in Console

[David J Ring Jr <n1ea@arrl.net>]

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Bruno,

Here is lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
02:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
02:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)

Thank you again,

I don't see anything with video in it.

David

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Bruno Prémont wrote:

> On Sun, 13 November 2011 Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The other case might be a mainsteam GPU (radeon, nouveau, intel) and
> KMS support built in (or available as module) but disabled by "nomodeset"
> cmdline option that did show up in a previous post.
>
> Just booting with "vga=0x31a" (or another value more appropriate for
> attached screen -- see Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt for list) might
> provide a basic framebuffer device.
>
> lspci for the affected system will certainly help at least indicating
> which driver would be the right one.
>
> Bruno
>