On Sun, 13 November 2011 Anatolij Gustschin <agust@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:16:52 -0500 (EST) > David J Ring Jr <n1ea@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > OK so how do I get a frame buffer driver loaded? > > Check if some frame buffer drivers are installed > in your system, so e.g. run > > ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video > > to see if there are any frame buffer driver modules > installed. > > Then you have to select the suitable driver for your > graphic card and load it by running > > modprobe drivername > > > I don't have any backlisted framebuffer drivers, what is stopping me from > > loading a frame buffer driver? > > > > Does anyone know what I have to do? > > > Usually the driver should be loaded automatically if > it is installed. Maybe some error happened while loading > the driver. Dump the kernel log messages by running dmesg > and check if there was an attempt to load the driver for > your graphic card. The other case might be a mainsteam GPU (radeon, nouveau, intel) and KMS support built in (or available as module) but disabled by "nomodeset" cmdline option that did show up in a previous post. Just booting with "vga=0x31a" (or another value more appropriate for attached screen -- see Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt for list) might provide a basic framebuffer device. lspci for the affected system will certainly help at least indicating which driver would be the right one. Bruno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
