-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Interesting observation. I just suspended mutt and went into /dev and sure enough, I have no fb device. I don't really know anything about framebuffer support so don't know about needing a /dev/fb or not to enable larger screen sizes at the console. Even so, vga=extended wouldn't yield me 50 lines either. Yet when I come into my box from a remote ssh session, I use vt220 emulation and I get 42 rows and 111 columns. I just can't seem to figure out how to do that with a linux console. While on the ssh session, $TERM shows VT220; while at home locally, $TERM shows linux. On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:57:13AM -0400, Erik Heil wrote: > Hi their, > What I can tell you is that framebuffer support i.e. /dev/fb is not > present in at least 2.6.18 by default. This is using the stock Debian > kernel and using a Geforece2MX video board. Either framebuffer support is > not in the kernel, or their are problems with that type of particular > hardware. This was, in fact, the culprit of my display problems I posted > about efroe. It had nothing to do with the auto detection code that was > introduced between Sarge and Lenny. Rather, the X server couldn't write > to the nonexistent framebuffer device, so of course it would generate an > error. Log messages in this case were not helpful though. > > --Erik > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:55:03 -0400 > > From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh at ftml.net> > > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Subject: Re: Debian Well Underway > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > I wish I could help you, but my installation is a really simple one. I > > used Samuel's mini-beep.iso, and selected "standard" from the > > configuration menu, and that's all it took. No extra packages relating > > to frame buffers or displays, other than what the "standard" choice > > implied. I switched from lilo to grub a long time ago, so I can't > > compare my loader configuration to yours directly. But for what it's > > worth, here's the kernel line from my grub menu.lst: > > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=791 > > quiet > > > > That seemed to wrap just now, but it's all one line in the > > configuration file. There's also an initrd, but again it was done for > > me by magic, I did nothing to modify or enhance it. > > > > Chuck > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:48:11AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > > > Yes, it looks like the exact same kernel here. Wonder if I need to > > > have some frame buffer packages installed or something. I began > > > looking at the console related stuff but haven't uncovered anything > > > yet. Still looking for ideas. > > > > > > > -- > > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (99% of Full) > > > > My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net -- my telephone: 1-518-334-9022. > > -------- > > Sarah Palin: At last, a Beauty Queen who doesn't want World Peace. > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > eheil at sdf.lonestar.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkj3ZUUACgkQWSjv55S0LfHxHwCeM+/BdOGJPERZwOVfIb6aj8vq 5C8AoMxSdltyf/OSnokrOxAVafl+mKIQ =+YJL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
