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<li><em>From</em>: Mikael Nilsson &lt;<A HREF="mailto:mini@nada.kth.se">mini@nada.kth.se</A>&gt;</li>
<li><em>Date</em>: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:19:03 +0100 (MET)</li>
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Hi!
I can't reach the maintainer of the FrameBuffer-HOWTO.
I had the following comment to make. Hope somebody listens..
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:50:27 +0100 (MET)
To: alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk
Subject: FrameBuffer-HOWTO: XF86_FBDev
Hi there!
Thanks for a great HOWTO!
I have used it (together with other web sources) to get X running on my
Toshiba 1710CDS laptop. Following your instructions, I made it... I am
using RedHat 6.2.
The Mach64 server should but did not work, so I decided to try fbdev.
The ATI Fb support in the kernel did not work for my card, so I changed to
VESA. Booting went fine, but X gave me:
fbdevScreenInit: Invalid Argument
which after having searched a loong time (finally, google found it for me),
could be resolved by changing the Screen section to:
Section &quot;Screen&quot;
Driver &quot;FBDev&quot;
Device &quot;Primary Card&quot;
Monitor &quot;Primary Monitor&quot;
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection &quot;Display&quot;
Modes &quot;default&quot;
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
matching my fb mode choice of 800x600x24
This is an X bug, but well worth noting.
Perhaps you should add this to the HOWTO?
/Mikael Nilsson
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