Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Piyush Patnaik wrote: > > > Hi All! > > > > Can anyone tell me about installing framebuffers. I've rebuild my > > XServer for using XFree86_FBDev...and made necessary changes to > > lilo.conf....but when I boot up the next time nothing apperars after > > linux loads. Does anyone know where is the problem? I'm currently, using > > Mandrake 6.0 > > > > Thanks... > > Piyush > > > Well let start with you didn't have to recompile anything, but thats ok > hope you picked up some valuble learn'in while you were at it :) > > specificly what did you do to lilo.conf, are you running a fb kernel > > -- > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > --Axalon To start with, during installation from the CD I enabled framebuffer use.....after that I made changes to my lilo.conf....here is my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-27mdk label=linux root=/dev/hda6 vga=789 append="video=vesa:mtrr parport=0x378,7" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda Also I created a device by: mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0......but when I run XF86_FBDev it returns: open_framebuffer: unable to open device /dev/fb0 (device does not exist) .....Piyush
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