On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:57 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ( 2 more mails and you might get the fbdev ML right ;) ) Modern technology... > - Is CONFIG_FB_EFI enabled? If not, please enable it and try again > (hint: CONFIG_FB_VESA doesn't hurt either) FB_EFI was enabled, FB_VESA was not, but I'll enable it. Out of interest, how could this affect the situation? If I understand correctly these drivers won't be loaded as long as simple-framebuffer is created, or am I missing something? > - Could you try the _same_ kernel config but disable CONFIG_X86_SYSFB. > This will avoid creating simple-fb devices and instead load efifb > again. Does efifb work? Does efifb print the same offsets as your > simplefb printk()? Yeah, efifb works fine, I'll double-check everything and note down the offsets. > - Are you sure that it's an simplefb problem? Please make sure fbcon > is enabled (could you attach your dmesg output?). You could also try > SSH'ing into the machine and starting some fbdev program (like X with > xf86-video-fbdev installed). Or does fbcon with efifb work? fbcon with efifb works fine (so I guess trying X is not necessary?). Cheers, Tom -- 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
