problem with xserver - /dev/fb0: No such device

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 06:18, Kevin Bowen wrote: 
> Hello all,
> I'm trying to play around some with the xserver - got it built
> successfully, but can't get it to start up. Well, actually, it starts up,
> but doesn't display anything. When I run Xati, it says "Error opening
> /dev/fb0: No such device", but doesn't exit - it switches to the new vt
> and I can even get xterm to connect to it, but it doesn't actually display
> anything - the vt where it should be is just a black screen.
> 
> Xvesa doesn't give an error message, but same behavior.
> 
> I *do* seem to have a /dev/fb0 

'No such device' means you're not running a framebuffer device, so Xati
will use the VESA backend. So it's the same problem as with Xvesa. Have
you tried different modes?


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