Hello Kelly, > As far as I know, any mode other than 80x25 is FB. There are two > way to display a penguin, one is the kernel option for a boot logo > (off by default in debian), the other is a boot splash program, such > as splashy or usplash.
Yeah, but I don't want the penguin anyway. What I want is a usable console. > All I do to enable higher resolution fb modes is put "vga=791" in the > kernel boot options and make sure console-setup is installed. I am > pretty stumped as to why this isn't working for you. So am I. I found that I didn't have the console-setup installed, I installed it, and was happy to see after a reboot that midway through the boot process I got a different video mode. However, after a power cycle, everything was back at 80x25 again. Also I think that the fb modes should be available directly from the start, seeing that fb support is compiled into the kernel. Is it time to file a bug against the kernel? Remember, with the latest -k7 version from sarge everything works hitch-free. Regarding the /dev/fb* nodes: Indeed my machine uses udev, and I grepped all of /etc/udev/ for strings with "fb", "framebuffer" and such. Nothing at all. Udev doesn't seem to know about framebuffers. But I suppose that doesn't matter because the kernel should have fb support right from the start, when it doesn't even have a filesystem yet. robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
