Mark L. Kahnt wrote: >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 11:52, Andre Leblanc wrote: > > >>Not exactly my area of expertise but what about that "no framebuffer >>found" line... sounds like you have X Configured to use a framebuffer, but >>maybe thats not compiled into the kernel. framebuffers from what I've >>heard are not the best idea for general purpose X Displays. causes alot >>of problems. also it mentions that there were screens found, but they are >>not configured properly (or some similar message) check your HorizSync >>and VertRefresh Lines, and the mode lines. >>Good luck, >>Andre >> >> > >I read it the same way - although I'd qualify the observations with the >consideration that framebuffers work better with some hardware where the >supporting code is more advanced than with other. Framebuffers work fine >with older ATI cards, for instance, but for NVidia, where for some time >the only support was via a binary-only module, I'm pretty sure that it >isn't *quite* as complete yet. That said, it sounds like there isn't >anything compiled into the kernel or as a module to provide framebuffer >support at present, so at this point, the X server should be switched. > >An apt-cache search nvidia only points to xserver-svga, which is for >XFree86 3.3.6, although there is a beta source code in nvidia-glx-src >for an XFree86 4.0 driver. Apparently you install it, build it and >install that, and voila. > > You havent by any chance recently upgraded from stable, and previously used the nvidia driver from www.nvidia.com? If you have done so chances are that the upgrade overwrites your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and replaces driver nvidia with driver nv. also some dri and glcore. Read the readmefile that comes with the nvidiadriver if this can be the cause.
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