[mythtv-users] splashy + nvidia + framebuffer

[Yan Seiner]

Yan Seiner wrote:
> Hmmm...
>
> I've got 2.6.24 uvesafb set up and starting but I'm getting
>
> /uvesafb: Getting VBE into block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=1)
> //uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
>
> And of course google is mute on this.  I get a handful of hits but nothing that would explain this.
>
> I can see two possibilites:
>
> 1.  My mobo + video card doesn't support vesa 2.0
> 2.  I'm trying to set an unsupported mode.
>
> The video card is a nVidia 6200 and the mobo is a ///WinFast/// K8S755A
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>   

So this is becoming sort of like the Holy Grail... Seems that klibc, the 
kernel, and v86d all must be compiled by the same version of gcc, and 
also (apparently) during the same phase of the moon, after appropriate 
sacrifice....

Anyway, more later - I'm learning more about debian's initrd, kernel 
building, and astrology than I really want to know...

--Yan