Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I'm in trouble, something between the Mach64 onboard video and the VGA->Sun > monitor cable just lost it. Fortunately, I have a MacPicasso card which > doesn't have a working native framebuffer, but works somewhat with offb > (640x480, jacked up colors, but oh well). But I can't get the console or > X4 to come up on it. With X3 I could do "FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx", but > that doesn't seem to work with X4.
Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" in the Device Section. This is finally documented in 4.0.2. :) > I tried building a new kernel without atyfb, but that just started offb > on both cards with /dev/fb0 on the ATI card. :-( > > [The MacPicasso card has Mac monitor output, for which I have a working > cable to the sun monitor; it works fine in MacOS, and in Linux I get a white > screen with black border and black text: "copying OF device tree... done > booting..." but no console.] For the console, you need the video=map: kernel option. video=map:1 puts all VTs on /dev/fb1, video=map:10 puts VT1 on /dev/fb1, VT2 on /dev/fb0, VT3 on /dev/fb1 and so on. After bootup you can use con2fbmap to change the mapping. Michel -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
