For me, X + fb worked with a little help of mkxf86config.sh
;-) emerge mkxf86config and run it and have a look, maybe it helps Cheerz NIC > -----Original Message----- > From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 3:04 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X will NOT run in framebuffer mode > > Richard Watson schreef: > > Hi - When trying to run X I'm getting the message "Fatal server > > error: Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specifiy bus IDs for > > all framebuffer devices". I'm running an IBM pentium 2 laptop, with > > the genkernel from 2005.1 stage 3 install. Any help would be really > > appreciated. Thanks, Richard > > Knowing what video chip is involved, what kernel module > you're trying to > use with it, and what settings you have in Xorg (the contents of > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be good > here), would be > useful info to have in order to attempt to help; we are not psychic > (this week, as far as I know). > > Also, are you trying to run in framebuffer mode (and it's not working, > obviously), or are you not supposed to be running in framebuffer mode > (so you're making an incorrect request when starting the X > server, which > needs to be corrected)? > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
