Frambuffer console for FC3

Mingfeng Yang myang at clarku.edu
Wed Mar 9 16:47:47 UTC 2005


Sorry to bother you with another question. 

This is the fresh installation of FC, so I want to make everything satisfying. 
By default, FC3 starts up without frambuffer console support. How should I 
enable it? 

I am using the pre-compiled kernel coming with the FC3 CD. It seems the 
required config options were enabled.

CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE=m
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FONTS is not set
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

My video display is supported by a ATI Fire GL 8800 video card.  I found the 
following two lines in the kernel config file,
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y

So, I think I don't need to recompile my kernel to enable FB console support, 
do I? What should I do? Pass some arguments to grub?

Yang




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