I'm one of those poor wretches with a Hercules Prophet Kyro
PCI video card on an aging 233 MHz Pentium. the one that isn't
VESA, or even VGA, but EGA (remember those?). I found a report
dated 2002 that someone got such a setup to work with
the framebuffer driver fbdev (though of course no acceleration)
and tried configuring my x server accordingly.
All went well, until, when I ran startx, the message
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
Of course there is a /dev/fb0 *file*. Presumably I am missing
some kernel option or module that would actually *implement*
the behaviout of this device. Anyone know where to find it?
Now I'm pretty sure that *someone*, *somewhere* knows how to
make these cards work at least a little: when I had Mandrake on
the machine, it did a pretty graphic display durung boot time,
but when it finished booting, it switched to a text console,
and I never managed to get X to work. It was frustrating not to
get the level of performance out of it that the boot-up display
provided.
-- hendrik
Have you checked the permissions on the dev/fb0 file. I had a similar
problem with /dev/input/js* and it turned out to have the wrong permissions
(600 instead of 660).
Might be worth a try.
Wackojacko
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