help! cannot run in framebuffer mode

scottious · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Amherst, MA

I'm having major issues here.

After "emerge gnome" which took hours, I tried to start x and get an error like this:

Fatal server error:
cannot run in framebuffer mode
please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices

I'm using a radeon 9800 pro, so I'm assuming that uses framebuffer support. How do I go about fixing this problem?

Thanks.

Bitwaba · n00b Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 34

make sure you have framebuffer support compiled into your kernel

gtr-xu1 · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject:

There is an excellent guide on the gentoo-wiki.

scottious · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Amherst, MA

thanks everybody, I think I got the framebuffer problem fixed.

jakubc · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject:

hi,

I'm having the exact same problem.. could you please point me in the right direction in soving this?... seeing that you already solved this.

Thak you.

Regards,
Jakub Cerny

cascamorto · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 373

same problem here
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