Video card detection and /dev/fb0

[Emmanuel Seyman]

I'm running Severn on an old computer which includes a Diamond Stealth 2001
video card (ark2000pv chipset included).
Somebody gave me a Pinnacle TV Card to test and I decided to what Severn
had to say about it.

Kudzu detected on boot and configured everything the way it should be
and scantv gave me an almost perfect .xawtvrc file but I then realized
X wasn't configured.

Running redhat-config-xfree86 gives me the following output:

* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
ID:   None
Name: None
HorizSync: None
VertSync:  None

* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
ID:   None
Name: None
HorizSync: None
VertSync:  None

Couldn't start X server, trying with a fresh configuration
Trying with card: Ark Logic ARK2000MT (generic)
Error, cannot start X server.

I then decided to test it using fbtv but I can't seem to make the framebuffer
stick. I boot with the "vga=ask" option and the install starts in the mode
that I chose but the system reverts back to "normal" text when the
"Setting default font" line comes up.

Known issue or simply a case of having the wrond card at the wrong time?

Emmanuel