Enabling matroxfb on fedora core 5

Fri Oct 13 11:47:12 UTC 2006

alexander bustamante wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a fresh install of FC5 running on a EPIA M1000. I've plugged in 
> a matrox millenium g450 card aswell. This is what i pass to the kernel 
> at boot: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 ro 
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 video=matroxfb:vesa:0x1BB
>
> But this does not enable the framebuffer. Am i missing something here?
> -Alex
>

Problem solved:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-September/msg00611.html