lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1998]   [Nov]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: Oops in fbcon
From
Date
>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Heuer <jogi@planetzork.ping.de> writes:

Jochen> Hello, today I tried the new XFree86-3.3.3 SVGA server for my
Jochen> Matrox Mill. G200 card and I immediately got an oops. Maybe
Jochen> this is caused because I just installed the new server without
Jochen> the other packages. I just wanted to try it because the server
Jochen> is glibc like the rest of my system. The SuSE server which I
Jochen> was running before flawlessly is only libc5. Maybe I should
Jochen> just wait for RedHat to release an update package. Although I
Jochen> think that the system should not oops. Or am I wrong here?
Jochen> Well, here comes the oops:

The SVGA server knows nothing about fbdev, if you want to run X on top
of a frame buffer device you _must_ use a frame buffer aware X
server. If it worked before it was purely a coincidence.

Jes

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:45    [W:0.048 / U:1.092 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site