On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 21:24 -0500, vinai wrote: > > I am still unable to start my computer with video=aty128fb and X is > > still complaining about no frame buffer devices, even though I have > > /dev/fb1 - 9 or 8. I am utterly frustrated at this, and I have found > > no help in anything I have read on line I can pass video=aty128fb > > argument on the command line, but I don't think it does anything. I > > even installed fbset and ran the command to output the configuration > > needed for X, but didn't understand it, is someone having similar > > problems? > > Not just a problem for you. Somewhere along the line, I also lost > support for my Mach64 video card, even doing text boots into a console. > This loss of support was in the Debian kernels - which is why I didn't > notice when that happened - as I normally compile my own kernels. > > The best result I've had is from an installer kernel - it was able to > text-boot into d-i and let me install testing a couple of months ago. > But the kernel it installed for actually running the system again did > not give me any video on boot. > > So what I do now is boot blindly, login and start X. I have my old X > settings from when I had fully supported video, and the video drivers > in X still work, thankfully. And I keep around a 2.4 kernel which has > full (working) support for all my hardware, just in case I need to do > diagnostics on boot.
Does upstream 2.6.12-rc2 work for you ? Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
