Using fbdev with FC1

[Mark Lanett]

I'm having a bit of trouble using fbdev. The FC1 kernel (2197) has support
for it compiled in, but it doesn't work, as in:

# fbset --info
open /dev/fb0: No such device

# ls -l /dev/fb0
crw-------  1 root root 29, 0 Sep 15  2003 /dev/fb0

There is no alias for char-major-29 in modules.conf, and in fact I see in
the /boot/config* that FB is compiled into the kernel, not a module:
# grep CONFIG_FB /boot/config-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl | grep -v \#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
[other output removed]
Since things are compiled into the kernel, one shouldn't need an alias
anyway.

So, how does one connect /dev/fb0 to the FB driver?

TIA,
Mark Lanett