Re: Getting FB to work in Console

Hello David,

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:09:53 -0500 (EST)
David J Ring Jr [off-list ref] wrote:

I found a line in /etc/default/grub which has nomodeset in it and I 
disabled it.

Here is what I have in that file now.

I have a feeling that something in grub is not right.

Did you run 'sudo update-grub' command after changing the /etc/default/grub
file ? If not, then the actual grub configuration file was not
updated and you probably still have nomodeset on the kernel command
line.

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

...

What do you think?  Is this where nomodeset is and does it look like this 
should work?  I still cannot get /dev/fb0

It should work. If you additionally run 'sudo update-grub', the grub
configuration file /boot/grub/grub.cfg will be updated. Then nomodeset
shouldn't be passed on the kernel command line any more.

Anatolij