Re: boot problem -- framebuffer numbers, is it me?
Seth David Schoen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.bbc.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Doug McCasland writes: > Hi, I'm checking out LNX-BBC... I booted the CD and it asked for a number > 1-5 for the FB resolution. At the boot: line, I typed > > boot: 2 > > It said that I "passed an invalid number" (or something like that). Then it > offered me a choice of text screen dimensions, like 80x24. I could boot > using one of these text modes, but startx then failed. I rerebooted a few > times, trying different 1,2,3,4,5 numbers, always got the same error. > > Am I doing this right? I have a 1-year-old Compaq, usually running Windows > XP. Don't know the video chipset. I'm sorry to say that this means that you have a video card unsupported by the kernel framebuffer driver in Linux kernel 2.4.19. And therefore LNX-BBC doesn't support X on your hardware. It might be supported in the future if the kernel framebuffer people can figure out your chipset! -- Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | being programmed by others. http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003), | 464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)