On Friday 05 January 2007 21:01, Roy Francis wrote: > Comments/Problems: > I am using the daily-build netinst image burnt onto a CDRW using > cdrecord. Once the bootsplash is shown, I used installgui at > boot-prompt. Booting is perfect in all respects until the framebuffer > initialisation happens. A page full of DirectFB initialisation stuff is > shown, then screen blanks and repeats the same thing.
> I used suspend (CTRL+S) to hold the screen. Nice trick that! > Jan 5 23:00:40 log-output: (!) DirectFB/FBDev: No supported modes > found in /etc/fb.modes and current mode not supported! > Jan 5 23:00:40 log-output: (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Current mode's > pixelformat: rgba 6/0, 6/0, 6/0, 0/0 (4bit) This is a known issue. See similar reports on this page: http://bugs.debian.org/rootskel > I think the kernel module for i810fb was not included with the CD > image. That is correct. Currently only vesafb is supported and we don't expect to be able to support different drivers anytime soon. Could you provide the output of the following commands: # cat /proc/fb # cat /etc/directfbrc # /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/bin/dfbinfo To get these most easily, boot the graphical installer with as extra parameter: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]