On Mar 02 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > > which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > > kernel's framebuffer. I (stupidly) failed to save the XF86Config file > > before starting, but the current one is identical to an older one that > > was lying around in /etc/X11. What I don't know is whether that's one > > from before I got X working on this system the last time, or one that > > actually worked. > > (EE) Unable to find a valid framebuffer device > (EE) NV(0): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult warnings and/or errors > above for possible reasons > (you may have to look at the server log to see warnings) > > These errors (and the warnings above) indicate that you need to load the > framebuffer driver for nvidia cards, "modprobe nvidiafb".
Hmm, looks like it's time to really display my ignorance. Is this a driver in the sense of kernel driver - and in particular, a kernel driver that's loaded dynamically and not built into the main kernel? Or is this a "driver" in some sense specific to X? I'm inclined to presume the former - but if so, well, the system is running on a kernel that was current when 'woody' was still the stable release of debian. Did kernels of that generation even have this driver - or am I looking at a need to upgrade my kernel in order to use this version of xfree86 on this system? (Or perhaps more correctly - in order to use it without much hand tweaking of files that dpkg-reconfigure can't seem to get right - since commenting out various things in XF86Config-4 did get X basically working.) -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
