Hello John, i assume you want to see console output on the framebuffer device. To achieve this, you need the framebuffer driver from your mail i conclude, that You have a framebuffer driver a keyboard driver the dummy keyboard driver is o.k., if you dont have a physical kbd Additionally you have to enable CONFIG_VT and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE on your system. Please remove console=ttyS0 from the kernel command line. Put a console=xxx command, which is appropriate for your framebuffer driver (see sourcecode of framebuffer driver)
-----Original Message----- From: Gallant, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 13. Januar 2003 17:23 To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Assistance with using /dev/fb0 and No X windows I have managed to get the "default" VGA/FB support to access my graphics device on the onboard PCI bus. We a SMI LynxEM chip on the board. I have the vga init() code properly accessing the device and the on chip frame buffer. I have used fbset to determine if /dev/fb0 can be accessed, and the driver is called. I also tried "ls -l > /dev/fb0" this also gets into the vga16fb_get_fix() code. What I need to do, and here is my lack of understanding, is to have some program access the /dev/fb0 device and display on the CRT. I do not have any X support, only whatever came with the MVL distribution. I am wondering what is necessary to use mingetty, or some other display method. Added wrinkles: No keyboard yet, but I do have the console=ttyS0 working. So any advice on what I could use or what I may have missed in my Xconfig settings? [...] ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
