[SOLVED] Getting the framebuffer up and running in Linux 3.0.4
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Getting the framebuffer up and running in Linux 3.0.4
Hey everybody
I have been working on getting my very own Linux distro up and running. I have a few questions, but I will separate them into separate post since they have nothing really to do with each other.
Right now I have a bootable linux system, it will boot on real hardware, but for development purposes I am using qemu. Once the system boots, it opens a getty on /dev/tty0. That works great, but I want graphics. So I have installed an Xserver, but I wanted to keep it small so I went with Kdrive Xfbdev, which needs a framebuffer device at /dev/fb0. I had it working with Linux 2.6.34, on boot I had to add "vga=792" to the kernel command line along with enabling vesafb in the kernel .config. That worked and I could get X running. Now, I have upgraded to kernel 3.0.4, and I did everything the same, enabled vesafb and added the same kernel options, but now on boot, the kernel asks me which video mode to use, no matter what I select, the framebuffer device does not show up in /dev/. How do I get vesafb working in Linux 3.0.4 and why has it changed from previous versions?
Hey everybody
I have been working on getting my very own Linux distro up and running. I have a few questions, but I will separate them into separate post since they have nothing really to do with each other.
Right now I have a bootable linux system, it will boot on real hardware, but for development purposes I am using qemu. Once the system boots, it opens a getty on /dev/tty0. That works great, but I want graphics. So I have installed an Xserver, but I wanted to keep it small so I went with Kdrive Xfbdev, which needs a framebuffer device at /dev/fb0. I had it working with Linux 2.6.34, on boot I had to add "vga=792" to the kernel command line along with enabling vesafb in the kernel .config. That worked and I could get X running. Now, I have upgraded to kernel 3.0.4, and I did everything the same, enabled vesafb and added the same kernel options, but now on boot, the kernel asks me which video mode to use, no matter what I select, the framebuffer device does not show up in /dev/. How do I get vesafb working in Linux 3.0.4 and why has it changed from previous versions?
OOPS!
Turns out that linux 3.0.4 works exactly the way it used to as far as vesafb is concerned. I was just booting from the wrong kernel the whole time. My bad.
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