Re: 'no screens found' -- how & why?

From: Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra (leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm)
Date: 04/21/04

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:35:17 -0300

    Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:10:34 -0400, Matt Price escreveu:

    > I've posted this on debian-powerpc but am feeling desperate -- apologies
    > for the cross-post. I've just had something rather strange happen --
    > after functioning perfectly well on several bootups, suddenly 2.6.5
    > kernels are unable to run X. I don't believe I did *anything* to the X
    > settings, and X still runs fine under 2.4.25. A quick look at the XFree86
    > logs indicates the problem is with the framebuffer support. Attempts to
    > set 'UseFBDev' to 'false' in XF86Config-4 result in complete failure in
    > both kernels ("R128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5)").

            Had something similar in 2.6.4, but I don't ever edit
    XF86Config directly, telling dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 not to
    use the framebuffer did the trick. 

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