On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > >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).
ls -l /dev/fb0 gives: crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2005-07-09 07:03 /dev/fb0 And I checked -- I am a member of the video group. So I suspect the /dev file is OK, but I am missing some kernel driver. Is there any documentation anywhere which drivers support which /dev files? This machine could be a decent X-terminal (ceratinly better than the one I used at work fifteen years ago) if I could only get this frame buffer to work. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
