I'm making progress. At least I got a /dev/fb0 now:
$ ls -l /dev/fb* crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2010-03-21 14:08 /dev/fb0 What I did was adding "fbdev" at the end of my boot line. In addition I got high resolution VTs. Still not the monitors native resolution but a massive improvement. This "fbdev" seems to be valid only for EFI, but at least for me that works, although I've got a standard Award BIOS. In addition I got the graphical boot splash from plymouth without KMS. The backside is, that still I am unable to start a VM using SDL: (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2010-02-03 18:27) (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using Generic 64bit memcpy() (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' failed --> Permission denied (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device! (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable. (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core! --> Initialization error! Could not initialize SDL - exiting It doesn't make a difference if I try to start it with my user account or with sudo, "permission denied" in both cases. -- Local SDL window does not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226273 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs