Hi Rohit,
Rohit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As for my adventures with FBDev last night, bada maza aaya.
>
> Created a link to SVGA_FBDev
> specified mode at the startup [It was really nice to see Tux at the
> start]
> Booted my machine at level 3 of init.
>
> Starting X first, gave error no 2 [execev]
The execev error which you got was because there is a link pointing to X server in
/etc/X11. In your case it might be still pointing to your old server rather than the
Frame buffer server. Check it out.
> I tried other modes... [from Table by Atul, posted earlier.] and the
> error
> in X reduced to
>
> 'there should be at least one screen section pointing to driver : svga'
This is again because of the above point. You are trying to start XFree_SVGA server and
no SVGA screen section is present in you XF86Config file.
> Fine. I re-ran Xconfigurator and chose my card etc. Chose RAM manually.
> 8192 VRAM on board 86c268 S3 Trio 3D/2x card. File was created and this
> time I did not deleted everything in the screen section. Simply replaced
> the entry 'XF86_SVGA'in the top section with 'XF86_FBDev'.
>
Just Change driver "svga" to driver "fbdev" and not "XF86_FBDev".
> This time, when I started X, the machine simply hung. Had to reboot.
If you do the above stuff this problem will not be there.
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