problem with xserver - /dev/fb0: No such device

[Kevin Bowen]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:16:11 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> 'No such device' means you're not running a framebuffer device, so Xati
> will use the VESA backend. So it's the same problem as with Xvesa. Have
> you tried different modes?

-listmodes shows the following:
VBE version 2.0 (ATI RADEON 7500)
DAC is fixed, controller is VGA compatible, RAMDAC causes snow
Total memory: 65536 kilobytes
0x0006: 640x200x1 (monochrome) Planar (1 planes)
0x000D: 320x200x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x000E: 640x200x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x0010: 640x350x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x0011: 640x480x1 (monochrome) Planar (1 planes)
0x0012: 640x480x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x0013: 320x200x8 PseudoColor

Its the hex number that I'm supposed to use as the argument to -mode,
right? I've tried all of them, and they all do the same thing, with the
exception of 0x0013, which generates a plain white screen (rather than
black).

I'm not sure what you mean about not running a framebuffer device - sorry,
but I don't know much about this kind of stuff. Is this a feature of my
card? Or something in software?