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

[Kevin Bowen]

Hello everyone...

don't mean to bug, but does anyone have any further ideas on this problem?
I'm really eager to start trying my hand at hacking up apps to take
advantage of transparency, but atm I'm stumped as to why I can't get the
xserver running. - Could my somewhat-old vid card (radeon 7500) be to blame?
If its just that my card is unsupported, I'd happily buy a new one. Don't
know if it's relevant, but I'm running Fedora Core 2 test1, kernel 2.6.


"Kevin Bowen" <kevin@ucsd.edu> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.02.16.23.09.31.534688@ucsd.edu...
> 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?