Re: Getting FB to work in Console

Hello David,

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:45:17 -0500 (EST)
David J Ring Jr [off-list ref] wrote:
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Any suggestions?

I have changed grub to give me a large 640x480 screen and that works but 
and it gives me color say if I have bash add color to folders and 
executables - and mc comes up in color but no links2 -g in color because 
no /dev/fb0.

Any other suggestions?

I made my username member of its own group and also tty and video.

As I said before I tried mknod and that worked but when I rebooted
/dev/fb0 was gone.

I tried the mknod command again and it created /dev/fb0
which is owned by root and in root group.  I changed the group to video.

Now root has rwx permissions the group can read and everyone can read.

You have to add write permissions for the group also. Check if
/dev/fb0 can be accessed if you create it by using
sudo mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 -m 660
sudo chown :video /dev/fb0

I run links2 -g and it still says it cannot access /dev/fb0.

If I reboot /dev/fb0 will disappear.

I'm stuck!

What is the output of following commands on your system?
cat /proc/fb
cat /proc/cmdline
dmesg | grep vesa

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