framebuffer

dmitri926 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 8

I have a dell 700m (1280x800, but im trying 1024x768 right now) and i was trying to install fb support without any luck. I followed the instructions on gentoo wiki and that 5-step thing from spock.

the problem is that it either it loads up this green nasty looking font that looks crappy, it looks just wrong. or it loads up this really black font and you cant see anything. in both cases it spits out some wierd characters for like 20 lines when gentoo loads.

i have gentoo 2004.3 latest dev kernel

my fbset:
mode "1920x1440-75"
# D: 297.000 MHz, H: 112.500 kHz, V: 75.000 Hz
geometry 1920 1440 1920 1440 8
timings 3367 352 144 56 1 224 3
vsync high
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
endmode

why does is that 1920x1400!!!??

thats my grub:

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.9-r4 fb
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda6 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@60 splash=silent,theme:emergence
initrd /fbsplash-emergence-1024x768

i also tried:
video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,1024x768-32@60 splash=silent,theme:emergence

im pretty sure my kernel is correct (vesafb-tng)... does anyone have any suggestions? this thing is driving me nuts!

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

dmitri926 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 8

thanks for the quick response! but it didnt work

now this is wut i get:
dmitri-laptop linux # fbset
open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

thats what i have on my kernel currently:
<*> RAM disk support │ │
│ │ (4096) Default RAM disk size (kbytes) │ │
│ │ [*] Initial RAM disk (initrd) support

<*> VESA VGA graphics support │ │
│ │ VESA driver type (vesafb) --->

<*> Framebuffer Console support

[*] Support for the framebuffer splash

thanks!

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

can you paste output of dmesg ?

dmitri926 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 8

Linux version 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 (root@dmitri-laptop) (gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #20 SMP Tue Nov 16 19:58:46 EST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001eee0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001eee0000 - 000000001eeeb000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001eeeb000 - 000000001ef00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ef00000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
494MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 126688
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 122592 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6cd0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD Montara 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1eee5c99
ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL MONTARAG 0x06040000 PTL 0x00000050) @ 0x1eeeaa2d
ACPI: SSDT (v001 INTEL GV3Ref 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x1eeeaaa1
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1eeeafd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL MONTARAG 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda6 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@60 splash=silent,theme:emergence
fbsplash: silent
fbsplash: theme emergence
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c05b0000 soft=c05a8000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 1794.419 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 495764k/506752k available (3298k kernel code, 10332k reserved, 1210k data, 232k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3547.13 BogoMIPS (lpj=1773568)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz stepping 06
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 5851.58 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 6 msecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 588k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd812, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
i8k: not running on a Dell system
i8k: vendor=Dell Inc., model=Inspiron 700m, version=A01
i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version
Dell laptop SMM driver v1.13 14/05/2002 Massimo Dal Zotto (dz@debian.org)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 2

Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.3[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
Machine check exception polling timer started.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1100653677.682:0): initialized
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
NTFS driver 2.1.20 [Flags: R/W].
inotify init: minor=63
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 423M
agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 1: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (#2)
vesafb: Intel Corporation, Intel(r)852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Graphics Controller, Hardware Version 0.0 (OEM: Intel(r)852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS)
vesafb: VBE version: 3.0
vesafb: hardware supports DCC2 transfers
vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 65 Hz, hf = 54 kHz, clk = 75 MHz
vesafb: trying maximum allowed refresh rate
vesafb: using default BIOS refresh rate
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x90
fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'emergence'
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xdf980000, size 16192k
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRC] (55 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRS] (48 C)
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 5.9
180 degree mounted touchpad
Sensor: 37
new absolute packet format
Touchpad has extended capability bits
-> multifinger detection
-> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
Using anticipatory io scheduler
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.3.19-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.27-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
b44.c:v0.94 (May 4, 2004)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0f:1f:af:55:9d
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1810-0x1817, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1818-0x181f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HTS548060M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: SONY CD-RW/DVD-ROM CRX830E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7877KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.02 loaded.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:04.2 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[e0208000-e02087ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem df82e000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 00001820
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 10, io base 00001840
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 10, io base 00001860
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.6 (Sun Aug 15 07:17:53 2004 UTC).
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49433 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xff00)
ALSA device list:
#0: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 at 0xe0100c00, irq 10
#1: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem at 0x2400, irq 10
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[811f0f009d55af00]
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (3959 buckets, 31672 max) - 304 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID0 SLPB LANC MODM
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed
Adding 522072k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
b44: eth0: Link is down.
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 1 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 2 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 3 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 4 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 5 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 6 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 7 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 8 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 9 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 10 using theme 'emergence'

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

everything appears to be showing ok in there, isnt your frame buffer console loading at all ?

dmitri926 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 8

nope, when i took off the tng it didnt load at all

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

but now it is loading, what is the behaviour ?

dmitri926 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 8

currently, i put tng back on and the letters are all black (cant even see them), the resolution is bigger.

and my fbset reports my resolution as 1900xsomthign. and i set it as 1024x768

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

that's freaky

dmitri926 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 8

yeah.

im gonna reinstall my gentoo. whats the newest and the best guide for installing vesafb-tng?

I have: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/gensplash-in-5-easy-steps.php
and http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash

but the spock one doesnt discuss the kernel options and the wiki one seems outdated?

ok thanks alot for your help!
im out..sleep

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

you may want to run "make mrproper" or "make clean" and recompile your kernel... ( save .config before )

dustfinger · Guru Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 449

I am a newbie so I may be way off on cloud 9 here, but are you using XFree86 or Xorg? I use XFree86 and I know that in my XFree config file I had to specify what resolutions I was going to allow X to run in. I also had to specify a default resolution. I think, although I could be wrong, that you need to have the resolution 1024x768 as an option in the config file. Also you should check to see if the 1900xsomething is an option in your config file.

I am not certain that the frame buffer cares about what x is up to. As I said I am a newbie still even though it says I am tux's little helper.

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dustfinger · Guru Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 449

Why don't you try getting everything else working and mess with the frame buffer at the end. That is what I did and my system works great except for one small issue that funny enough may be related to the frame buffer ;O). Don't give up on gentoo so soon. I have tried a few different distros and gentoo has ran by far the smoothest on my system. It is possible that you are missing some constraint and once you get everything else working the way you like then when you set up gensplash that will work as well.

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ggx · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 1

I am really interested!

I have an intel 855gm video chip and your dmesg output really surprises me, especially the following line:

vesafb: Intel Corporation, Intel(r)852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Graphics Controller, Hardware Version 0.0 (OEM: Intel(r)852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS)

how did you manage to get this to work? I had many hopeless tries to get framebuffer/bootsplash work but it always said "You passed an undefined mode number", I tried both vesafb-tng and vesafb but none of them worked, with vesafb-tng it says "hardware doesn't support DCC transfers" and completely hangs (only reset button works), and with vesafb I get "probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6". Could you please tell me how you managed to get this to work? Thank you very much.

dmitri926 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 8

dont remember exactly since i abandoned installing gentoo on my laptop and went back to freebsd LOL. but i just followed instructions in:
read this one, http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
but follow this one: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/gensplash-in-5-easy-steps.php

also my fb did NOT work, my res would be like ridiculously high (1900x1200) even tho i set it low in the kernel and everywhere else.

hope that helps & good luck.

if u got it to work please post here for everyone to see.