Hello Dave, Thanks for help.. got it working.. and one more funny & strange issue was, the FRC cable connecting the display and the board had a loose contact.. just pressed it and got display working...
Thanks, Girish On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Girish Desai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Thanks for the response.. I did all the settings as you suggested.. Thanks > for the detailed one.. but one thing is, I could not see the two options > below highlighted in red while doing kernel config.. may be I have missed > some thing... > > > Console display driver support ---> > <*> Framebuffer Console support > [*] Map the console to the primary display device > > * [*] Select compiled-in fonts [*] VGA 8x8 font* > > Thanks, > Girish > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, dave festing <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Girish, >> >> This does sound familiar ... have you enabled virtual terminal in the >> kernel? >> >> Device Drivers ---> >> Character devices ---> >> [*] Virtual terminal >> [*] Enable character translations in console >> [*] Support for console on virtual terminal >> >> Graphics support ---> >> [*] Support for frame buffer devices ---> >> <*> S3C2410 LCD framebuffer support >> >> Console display driver support ---> >> <*> Framebuffer Console support >> [*] Map the console to the primary display device >> [*] Select compiled-in fonts >> [*] VGA 8x8 font >> >> Input device support ---> >> [*} Touchscreens ---> >> {*] Samsung S3c generic touchscreen input driver >> >> <*> Mouse interface >> [ ] Provide legacy /dev/psaux device >> (240) Horizontal screen resolution >> (320) Vertical screen resolution >> >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 06:04:01 +0530 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [oselas] FriendlyARM mini2440: fbtest not displaying any thing >> on display >> >> >> Hi, >> I am trying to get some thing on display.. but the initial test like >> 'fbtest' (which as per the document has to display various patterns on the >> display) itself is not displaying anything. But on the terminal(minicom on >> host) I can see the following statements in response to 'fbtest' >> >> *root@mini2440:~ fbtest* >> *Using drawops cfb16 (16 bpp packed pixels)* >> *Available visuals:* >> * Monochrome* >> * Grayscale 32* >> * Truecolor 5:6:5:0* >> *Using visops truecolor* >> *Running all tests* >> *test001: PASSED* >> *test002: PASSED* >> *test004: PASSED* >> *test006: PASSED* >> >> in case any one have come across this kind of issue and have any >> suggestions could you please let me know... >> >> Thanks. >> Girish >> > >
