On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:02:44PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > 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 ... ... ... > > > > > >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
Back from vacation, and once more wondering -- just what *is* the correct module for the framebuffer for a Hercules Kyro Prophet video card. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
