On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0200, wim wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >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 > > > > > > Are you using udev?
I'm using whatever Debian sarge installed by default just three days ago. How do I find out whether I'm using udev? > Did you loaded the correct module for your framebuffer? Probably not, unless it was autodetected. I suspect that's the problem. But what *is* the correct module for the framebuffer for the Hercule Kyro Prophet series of video cards, anyway? -- hendrik > > wim. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
