civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 12 September 2001 17:32, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/09/2001 10:57:34 AM > > Could some advise on these setting and what this person means by sax, sax2 > > and fbdev? > > Now that I remember I think in the past you had to recompile the kernel in > > order to get frame buffer support. > > Is this correct? > > Does anyone know how to set-up fbdev ???? > Mandrake installs fb and nonfb kernels by default on all systems that will > tolerate fb. Aurora will never show on cards that do not support > framebuffer, and install uses it except for i810s and a few others where > VGA16 is used. Because for most of the past month I have been unsuccessful gettng 8.0 or 8.1 installed on a machine that happily runs 7.1, and the reason for failure is X configuration failure, and that one of the error messages that has popped up in logs when X fails to start is "video card does not like X in framebuffer", I would really like some clarification on the above. Right now my boot partition has only two kernels, 2.4.3-20 & 2.4.8-5. It appears to me that framebuffer must be in an only stock kernel with these distros. I can't find on any of the CD's where any other kernels might be. The Framebuffer HOWTO isn't very clear about how framebuffer gets enabled or not, and even less clear about how to determine whether it is needed or desired. It seems that framebuffer must already be in the stock kernels, and that enabling it is as simple as a vga= statement in /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/lilo.conf. I'm totally lost on whatever part framebuffer may play in the ability of the Mandrake installer to correctly configure X on my hardware. I have posted two bugs on this subject, 4237 for 8.0 & 4399 for 8.1B1. -- "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." President John Quincy Adams Team OS/2 *** Rotary ONLY since 1973 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/ <- Not just a FAQ
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