On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > I think you're right, it all goes by very fast here, even in vmware, but > the code does a modprobe vesafb || modprobe vga16, and I see modprobe > failing to load the former, then presumably it loads the latter.
thomas here the promised dmesg and syslog
they show vga16fb to bee loaded
-- dmesg snippet
Linux version 2.4.22-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian
prerelease)) #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f7f0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f7f0000 - 000000001f7f8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f7f8000 - 000000001f800000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffef0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
503MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 129008
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 124912 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 97 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Kernel command line: vga=normal initrd=/install/cdrom.gz ramdisk_size=8192
root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw BOOT_IMAGE=/install
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1097.266 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2188.90 BogoMIPS
Memory: 506632k/516032k available (1031k kernel code, 9012k reserved, 442k data, 76k
init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030813
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb31, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.4
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:01.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:01.1
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1631k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
-- syslog snippet
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre3
(2003.10.21-17:24+0000)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.notice klogd: klogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre3
(2003.10.21-17:24+0000)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Linux version 2.4.22-1-386 ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)) #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST
2003
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 -
000000000009fc00 (usable)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 -
00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 -
0000000000100000 (reserved)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 -
000000001f7f0000 (usable)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 000000001f7f0000 -
000000001f7f8000 (ACPI data)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 000000001f7f8000 -
000000001f800000 (ACPI NVS)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffef0000 -
00000000fff00000 (reserved)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 -
0000000100000000 (reserved)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.notice klogd: 503MB LOWMEM available.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.debug klogd: ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: On node 0 totalpages: 129008
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: zone(1): 124912 pages.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: zone(2): 0 pages.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.notice klogd: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 97
and too old
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.notice klogd: You can enable it with acpi=force
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Kernel command line: vga=normal
initrd=/install/cdrom.gz ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc
devfs=mount,dall rw BOOT_IMAGE=/install
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Initializing CPU#0
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Detected 1097.266 MHz processor.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Calibrating delay loop... 2188.90 BogoMIPS
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Memory: 506632k/516032k available (1031k
kernel code, 9012k reserved, 442k data, 76k init, 0k highmem)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536
(order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Inode cache hash table entries: 32768
(order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order:
0, 4096 bytes)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768
(order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Page-cache hash table entries: 131072
(order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.debug klogd: CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff
00000000 00000000 00000000
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.debug klogd: CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff
00000000 00000000 00000000
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping
0a
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception
support... done.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Checking for popad bug... OK.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030813
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at
0xfdb31, last bus=1
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing
entries
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at
00:01.0
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.4
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Based upon Swansea University Computer
Society NET3.039
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Initializing RT netlink socket
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Starting kswapd
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.notice klogd: VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08)
with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:01.6
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:01.1
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of
8192K size 1024 blocksize
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Initializing Cryptographic API
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 48, console /dev/vc/1: '/bin/sh'
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 52, console /dev/vc/1:
'/sbin/debian-installer'
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 53, console /dev/vc/3:
'/usr/bin/tail'
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 54, console /dev/vc/4:
'/usr/bin/tail'
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096
buckets, 32Kbytes
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: TCP: Hash tables configured (established
32768 bind 65536)
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.notice klogd: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Freeing initrd memory: 1631k freed
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Mounted devfs on /dev
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.warn klogd: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.notice klogd: Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Mounted devfs on /dev
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
Dec 29 19:07:12 (none) syslog.info klogd: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux
NET4.0.
Dec 29 19:07:13 (none) syslog.debug klogd: vga16fb: initializing
Dec 29 19:07:13 (none) syslog.info klogd: vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Dec 29 19:07:13 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Console: switching to colour frame buffer
device 80x30
Dec 29 19:07:13 (none) syslog.info klogd: fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
---
regards max
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