Raja, In Characters drivers, you have to enable the framebuffer corresponding to your videocard. Use /sbin/lspci -v to know wich video card you have on your PC Stephane On jeu, oct 07, 2004 at 10:48:08 -0400, Raja.Hayek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Raja.Hayek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am trying to build an RTAI-enabled kernel o my linux computer, in > preparation for installing an RTAI into that kernel once ready. > > Mainly, I have installed Mandrake 8.1 linux on the computer. Next, I > wanted to rebuild the kernel. > > After booting into the new kernel and logging in, I fail to start X > Windows. Namely, if I enter the command startx, this is the message I get > back: > Fatal server error: > open_framebuffer: failed to open /dev/fb0 (no such device) > > It seems that other services are working. > > My computer is a Pentium-III with an SBC81613 motherboard, and an S3 > ProSavage4 AGP 4x graphics controller. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Raja Hayek. > > The build steps were as follows: > > 1. I downloaded the file linux-2.4.17.tar.bz2. I followed the steps > detailed below to install and rebuild (my setup had originally taken place > in a directory called /home/tools): > > > 2. decompressed the tar file > tar --bzip2 -xvf linux-2.4.17.tar.bz2 > > 3. renamed the original linux directory to linux-2.4.17 > mv linux linux-2.4.17 > > 4. copied the patch file patch-2.4.17-rthal5g to my new linux > directory, and applied the patch > patch -p0 -i /home/tools/linux-2.4.17/patch-2.4.17-rthal5g > > > 5. to configure the kernel, I copied and "made" the config file, all > inside the my /home/tools/linux-2.4.17 directory. I went through the > configuration, selecting/de-selecting the options as applicable. > cp /boot/config . > make config > > 6. continued the make process, as follows > make dep > make clean > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > > This problem occurs whether I accept or reject support for frame buffers > (the CONFIG_FB option) during the kernel build process in step 5 above. -- Stephane List http://slist.lilotux.net -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
