On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I'm trying to run X on my Dell Inspiron 3700 with Debian. I've got X > running, but it hangs when I try to do a suspend. All of the howto's I've > read say that, in order for suspend to work, I need to be using the FBdev > xserver... which requires that I start with framebuffers turned on with the > "vga=791" command at boot time. > > However, whenever I try this, I don't get the neat penguin logo that > everyone says I'm supposed to get. I get this psychotic lava-lamp looking > things that acts as if I'm turning the brightness on my laptop up too high. > People have suggested that the kernel doesn't have VESA framebuffer support > compiled in. Does anyone know if this is so?
Joe, The .config file used to build the stock kernel can be found in /root/config-2.2.17 (for potato). Look in that to see if VESA support was included. BTW, you should make sure your text is wrapped to less than 80 characters in your email. dar
