I'm putting an older machine back in service. I'm having a problem with the framebuffer. I see teh penguin on startup, so frambuffer is starting, but when I try to use, say fbi (and other framebuffer apps), I get:
can handle only packed pixel frame buffers Here's dmesg, if it helps: Script started on Sun Oct 26 10:42:37 2003 cogenvs:~# dmesg Linux version 2.4.22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031005 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 23:39:05 EDT 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000eb000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 128MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 32768 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28672 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. DMI not present. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 hdc=scsi ide_setup: hdc=scsi Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 350.802 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 699.59 BogoMIPS Memory: 125628k/131072k available (2138k kernel code, 5056k reserved, 569k data, 372k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1463.72 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 350.7948 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 100.2268 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 1002268, slice: 501134 CPU0<T0:1002256,T1:501120,D:2,S:501134,C:1002268> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9c2, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0 Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded vga16fb: initializing vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0e.0 eth0: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:02:B3:27:A2:15, IRQ 10. Board assembly 751767-003, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. Secondary interface chip i82555. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x3258698e). Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX13.6A, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c045eae0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c045ec28, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: MATSHITA CR-588, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 26760384 sectors (13701 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1769/240/63, UDMA(33) hdb: attached ide-disk driver. hdb: host protected area => 1 hdb: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=15881/240/63, UDMA(33) ide-cd: passing drive hdc to ide-scsi emulation. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hdb: hdb1 ide-cd: passing drive hdc to ide-scsi emulation. Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1.2 Oct 24 2003 23:45:33) DC390: 0 adapters found 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.036. 3w-xxxx: No cards found. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Linux video capture interface: v1.00 I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software I2O: Event thread created as pid 9 I2O configuration manager v 0.04. (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.0.1 chain_pool: 0 bytes @ c7f72de0 (512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. cramfs: wrong magic FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,1)) ... for (ide0(3,1)) ide0(3,1):Using r5 hash to sort names VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 372k freed Adding Swap: 680392k swap-space (priority -1) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 00:26:56 Oct 25 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.2 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,65)) ... for (ide0(3,65)) ide0(3,65):Using r5 hash to sort names parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)] parport0: irq 7 detected lp0: using parport0 (polling). Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 96M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 hdc: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-588 Rev: LP12 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Script done on Sun Oct 26 10:43:48 2003 What can I do to fix this? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
