Framebuffer in redhat 8.0

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sat Dec 21 00:30:13 EST 2002


I could be wrong, but isn't it ctrl/alt/f1?
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 00:03, Mark Musone wrote:
> Does anybody know how to enable framebuffer support in redhat 8.0??
> I have an ATI Rage IIC
> 
> it looks like it should already be compiled in, and i added:
> video=atyfb:mode:800x600,font:SUN12x22
> 
> in the kernel arguments in the grub.conf file,
> 
> but when i try to run mplayer with the frambuffer, it says:
> 
> fbdev: Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
> 
> so i'm assuming that it's not really working..how can i at least check if
> the framebuffer is working?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 





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