X and Frame Buffers

ejholmes · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject: X and Frame Buffers

How do you guys start X when you are booting with frame buffer support? Because whenever i try to start x when i'm running a kernel with FB support i get the following:

"Fatal error
Cannot start X with frame buffer support. Please specify busID's"

Any Ideas?

P.S. I've also tried using qingy as a graphical login manager which i wasn't very impressed with because the fonts would'nt show which made it nearly impossible to login!!

John5788 · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash
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ejholmes · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject:

Sure that will make boot up nice and pretty but that probably won't solve the X/FB conflct.

ejholmes · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject:

I got it working!
for those of you who are having the same problem, here is the solution:

I was using the default xorg.conf files rather than writing my own and apperenly X won't let you start X unless you specify the BusID's of your video cards. So in order to write my own, i started up xfce4 with the default config file and then i exited xfce. This produced a log file for the X initialization in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and it contains the information for writing your own xorg.conf, all you really have to do is copy the builtin stuff from the file and paste it into your own xorg.conf, the log file also specified the BusID for my NeoMagic card, which was "PCI:00:02:00" so i added the BusID to all Device sections in the xorg.conf file. Then all you have the do is add the file Section which you can copy from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.example. And that basically did it for me!

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edit* NM i fixed it. Thanx for posting the solution I had the same problem when i booted in framebuffer mode.