Thanks John,

I rectified the kernel.....but its only working in the text mode. X doesn't
start properly, I mean the display is not working properly....I can only see a
few streeks of X with many tiny copies of it on the top of my display. Can you
tell me where might the problem be? I start linux with vga mode 788 in lilo.conf
and it displays text fine....but its not running X.!

The reason I'm opting for a framebuffer is because XFree86 doesnot support my
video card - Silicon Motion LynxE.

John Aldrich wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > To start with, during installation from the CD I enabled framebuffer
> > use.....after that I made changes to my lilo.conf....here is my lilo.conf:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-27mdk
> >
> Looks like you don't have a frame-buffer kernel. Should be
> kernel-fb-2.2.9-27mdk or something like that instead of
> "vmlinuz-2.2.9-27mdk" I think. Why do you need frame-buffer
> anyway? IIRC, it's not as good as having direct support for
> the video.
>         John
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