Re: vesafb, radeonfb: system hang at boot or no graphics mode

On 2007-07-11 14:45, Stephan Diestelhorst wrote:
>> I've been trying for a day now to get any kind of framebuffer support on my
>> computer, with mainly two outcomes:
> 
> You could probably try vesafb-tng / uvesafb, it has some more features than 
> standard vesafb.
> 
> See http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ and 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
> 
> Don't know if that helps, but it might be worth a shot!
> 
> Stephan
> 

Thanks. I checked out the install instructions for uvesafb (I can't run vesafb-tng since I'm on a x86_64 system), and it seems quite involved. Also, since both vesafb and radeonfb fails I'm thinking the chances of another vesa driver working is slim. Perhaps I'll try a graphic card BIOS upgrade instead, or else just await some kind of answer by a developer to my bug report(s) before doing anything else.

Arvid

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