Framebuffer in 2.6.9 kernels

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Darkaudit · #1 Post by **Darkaudit** » 2004-12-30 15:02

I kept having trouble getting the framebuffer to work with my compiled 2.6.9 kernels. If vesafb was compiled as a module, I'd get a blank screen. Compiled statically, I'd get garbage.

After a day's worth of googling, I found that there seems to be a bug in the vesafb.c code. I also found this fix: replace the Debian kernel-source-2.6.9/drivers/video/vesafb.c with the vesafb.c from the vanilla 2.6.9 kernel source.

I did this. Compiled vesafb statically. I have framebuffer. And bootsplash.

yanik · #2 Post by **yanik** » 2005-01-03 17:43

do you know if you had kernel-souce-2.6.9-1 or 2.6.9-2?

white_gecko · #3 Post by **white_gecko** » 2006-01-01 21:21

is there any posability to get only this file (vesafb.c) i don't want to download the whol kernel-source if i only need this one file.