I'm having this most annoying problem with my framebuffer. See, I like to run a 1024x768x64k framebuffer, so more fits on the command line and so I can watch videos in mplayer without starting up X. This worked just fine under a 2.4 kernel with slack 10.0, never a problem. However, upon compiling a 2.6.8.1 kernel, anything but "vga=normal" causes a black screen upon boot. According to dmesg, the fb driver is giving the most helpful "error -6." Not good. I grabbed a 2.6.7 kernel and compiled, but same problem. I have support for framebuffer devices enabled, both the new and old radeon drivers as well as generic vesa selected, framebuffer and mode selection enabled, and of course, VGA text console. Please help, I'm dying with 640x480 consoles. My video card is a Radeon 9700 Pro(I know, I know). I did have a framebuffer console working under Debian Sarge with a 2.6 kernel, too bad I couldn't stand the distribution.

Ehuwiko,

You say you have vga text console compiled however you do not mention having "select compiled-in fonts" and a font (i.e. "VGA 8x16 font") compiled as well. I'm not certain that's the problem, however if when using frame-buffers you rmachine boots fine with the exception of no text being shown, that is a likely possiblity. Try recompiling with those options selected.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2
Read the first post in that page.

Thanks, I missed that one when I did a search. Works beautifully now. I had something or other selected as a module that should have been compiled in.