Re: disabling framebuffer device

2002-10-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:21:48PM +0100, Paul Lewis wrote: > I seem to have accidently cracked it, look in the /etc/X11 and edit > XF86Config-4. Find the section that says "section 'device'", and in > that section there is a field "Option useFBdevicetrue" change > true to 'false' and

Re: disabling framebuffer device

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Lewis
I seem to have accidently cracked it, look in the /etc/X11 and edit XF86Config-4. Find the section that says "section 'device'", and in that section there is a field "Option useFBdevicetrue" change true to 'false' and that seems to have done it for me. People who know much more about Xfr

Re: disabling framebuffer device

2002-10-06 Thread Paul Lewis
Well, I can tell you what not to do. Do not just rem out the matrox frame buffer in the /etc/modules file. This caused me so much trouble that I ended up (with a wing and a prayer) putting it back in, in the hope that everything would work again. So far it does. I get the anoying little white

disabling framebuffer device

2002-10-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, How can I disable (rmmod) framebuffer device which was activated by "modprobe tdfxfb". (I am using stock 2.4.19-686-smp kernel-image) Simple "rmmod tdfxfb" does not work: # "rmmod tdfxfb tdfxfb: Device or resource busy I know I can reboot but that is not cool. Osamu PS: I am having f