From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David J Ring Jr Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:50:58 +0000 Subject: Re: Getting FB to work in Console Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-121701759-1321242607=:2152" List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-121701759-1321242607=:2152 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="iso-8859-15"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bruno, Here is lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Contr= oller Hub (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipse= t Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integ= rated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Con= troller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Con= troller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Con= troller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Co= ntroller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Contr= oller (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 Con= troller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Con= troller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Con= troller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Co= ntroller #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 0= 3) 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 Contr= oller 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 Eth= ernet PCI Express (rev 02) Thank you again, I don't see anything with video in it. David On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Bruno Pr=E9mont wrote: > On Sun, 13 November 2011 Anatolij Gustschin wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:16:52 -0500 (EST) >> David J Ring Jr 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 fr= om >>> 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=3D0x31a" (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 > --8323328-121701759-1321242607=:2152--