Those settings depend on virtual terminal being enabled ... I think. Dave Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 23:27:35 +0530 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Subject: Re: [oselas] FriendlyARM mini2440: fbtest not displaying any thing on display
Hello Dave, Thanks for help.. got it working.. and one more funny & strange issue was, the FRC cable connecting the display and the board had a loose contact.. just pressed it and got display working... Thanks,Girish On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Girish Desai <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for the response.. I did all the settings as you suggested.. Thanks for the detailed one.. but one thing is, I could not see the two options below highlighted in red while doing kernel config.. may be I have missed some thing... Console display driver support ---> <*> Framebuffer Console support [*] Map the console to the primary display device [*] Select compiled-in fonts [*] VGA 8x8 font Thanks,Girish On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, dave festing <[email protected]> wrote: Girish, This does sound familiar ... have you enabled virtual terminal in the kernel? Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> [*] Virtual terminal [*] Enable character translations in console [*] Support for console on virtual terminal Graphics support ---> [*] Support for frame buffer devices ---> <*> S3C2410 LCD framebuffer support Console display driver support ---> <*> Framebuffer Console support [*] Map the console to the primary display device [*] Select compiled-in fonts [*] VGA 8x8 font Input device support ---> [*} Touchscreens ---> {*] Samsung S3c generic touchscreen input driver <*> Mouse interface [ ] Provide legacy /dev/psaux device (240) Horizontal screen resolution (320) Vertical screen resolution Cheers, Dave Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 06:04:01 +0530 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [oselas] FriendlyARM mini2440: fbtest not displaying any thing on display Hi,I am trying to get some thing on display.. but the initial test like 'fbtest' (which as per the document has to display various patterns on the display) itself is not displaying anything. But on the terminal(minicom on host) I can see the following statements in response to 'fbtest' root@mini2440:~ fbtest Using drawops cfb16 (16 bpp packed pixels)Available visuals: Monochrome Grayscale 32 Truecolor 5:6:5:0Using visops truecolor Running all teststest001: PASSEDtest002: PASSEDtest004: PASSED test006: PASSED in case any one have come across this kind of issue and have any suggestions could you please let me know... Thanks.Girish
