Re: New Installation: Missing Module 'fbdev'

On 4 March 2012 02:59, /dev/rob0 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Generally not necessary for recent hardware. Automatic detection
> works pretty well for X on most hardware. (Not sure if "recent"
> matters or not, TBH.)

+1 on this. I run Kubuntu, with the Nvidia binary driver, and it has
somehow detected this even when the x.org config file is blank. I
would think that this would also apply to Slackware, given a
recent-enough Xorg install.

In a previous version of Kubuntu, I did need to have a partial config
file to specify just a few things that were not being properly
auto-detected; this file is as below:

      Section "Screen"
            Identifier      "Default Screen"
            DefaultDepth    24
      EndSection

      Section "Module"
            Load    "glx"
      EndSection

      Section "Device"
           Identifier      "Default Device"
           Driver  "nvidia"
           Option  "NoLogo"        "True"
     EndSection

You could take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see why it's not
loading up the display / fbdev driver.
I would also check lsmod and dmesg to verify that the fbdev driver did
in fact load up correctly.

Regards,
Srdjan