Bruno,

Here is lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
02:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
02:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)

Thank you again,

I don't see anything with video in it.

David

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Bruno Prémont wrote:

On Sun, 13 November 2011 Anatolij Gustschin [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:16:52 -0500 (EST)
David J Ring Jr [off-list ref] wrote:

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OK so how do I get a frame buffer driver loaded?

Check if some frame buffer drivers are installed
in your system, so e.g. run

ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video

to see if there are any frame buffer driver modules
installed.

Then you have to select the suitable driver for your
graphic card and load it by running

modprobe drivername

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I don't have any backlisted framebuffer drivers, what is stopping me from
loading a frame buffer driver?

Does anyone know what I have to do?

Usually the driver should be loaded automatically if
it is installed. Maybe some error happened while loading
the driver. Dump the kernel log messages by running dmesg
and check if there was an attempt to load the driver for
your graphic card.

The other case might be a mainsteam GPU (radeon, nouveau, intel) and
KMS support built in (or available as module) but disabled by "nomodeset"
cmdline option that did show up in a previous post.

Just booting with "vga=0x31a" (or another value more appropriate for
attached screen -- see Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt for list) might
provide a basic framebuffer device.

lspci for the affected system will certainly help at least indicating
which driver would be the right one.

Bruno