On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 15:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > What framebuffer is used ? atyfb probably ?
I don't really know. I used video=ofonly but it doesnt help. I can login on terminal 4, and it seems that there are no fb module (at least find /lib/module/2.6.16-powerpc-1 -name '*fb*' outputs nothing. I have a /dev/fb0 I've tried to look at scripts run by debian-installer in /lib/debian-installer.d S35 test debconf-get debian-installer/framebuffer to output "true", but it's not the case on this powerbook. > > I believe that this one is builtin in the kernel, it used to be at > least. Can > you check that ? > > Basically, there is two possibilities of it failing : > > 1) the framebuffer device is not builtin, and cannot be found as > module. how can I check I check if framebuffer is builtin ? > > 2) the graphical frontend doesn't know how to deal with builtin > framebuffer > devices. > > What strikes me at odd though, is that if you are having output, then > you > already have a framebuffer device, and thus there is a problem around > 2). > MAybe it tries to loade vesafb, or something such. dmesg | grep fb outputs nothing useful > -- Yves-Alexis Perez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]