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Topic: IBM Thinkpad 760 XL, X won't boot -- missing module fb0

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bubazoo

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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,20:27

I have an IBM Thinkpad 760 XL
32 mb RAM
2.1 gig HD

I am trying to put DSL 2.2b on (current version), but am not having very good success at all

I first tried to boot using

dsl vga=normal lang=us

and selecting "framebuffer" xfbdev xserver I get "missing module fb0 errors.

when I select xfvesa xserver, it hangs X entirely, regardless of the display resolution I try.

umm, now what? won't boot into X, either it hangs, or I get this missing module error.

has anyone gotten an IBM THinkpad 760 XL or similar to work with DSL? because I am having a very hard time over here with it, won't boot into X at all.

are you SUREEEEEE DSL will boot an X server with as little as 16mb of RAM? because I'm having a hard enough time getting X to boot with 32 meg over here..

either that, or the distribution is missing the xfb* modules
I don't understand it either, the .iso image passed md5 checksums (shrugs)

I had to do the "poor mans install" though, because my thinkpad 760 wouldn't detect the pcmcia CD-ROM until the \knoppix and \boot directories were copied to the hard drive. It detected the CD-ROM just fine after that though. Boot managers just don't detect the pcmcia device at all for some reason.

now X won't start, and I'm about ready to throw this damsmalllinux distro disk out the freakin window!!!

take care,
Tom

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,18:03

You can't run the framebuffer server xfbdev if you don't specify a framebuffer at boottime.

Whenever you select vga=normal, you are disabling the startup of the framebuffer.

Either boot by typing:

fb640x480

fb800x600

dsl vga=xxx xsetup

(where xxx is the 3 digit code from the "F3" menu at boot time.

bubazoo

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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,19:57

ahh, gotcha! thanks, I will try combinations of those to see which works the best

thanks so much for the reply

I ran xsetup.sh from the command line, and tried switching to fb 640x480, that didn't work so I tried switching to fb 800x600, again it didn't work (X freezes) so I'll try booting with those options see if it changes any.

bubazoo

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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,20:24

nope, didn't work

fb640x480 and fb800x600 give me the following error message:

Code Sample

modprobe: modprobe: can't find module fb0
X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0:0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

that is the EXACT error I get every time I try to run in framebuffer mode,
no matter what I do.

I then tried

dsl vga=788 xsetup

selected xfbserv, MPS/2 mouse, and language=us,
again I get the following error

Code Sample

modprobe: modprobe: can't find module fb0
X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0:0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

HELP!!!

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 14 2006,06:17

Reading up on your video chipset (google thinkpad 760xl linux), it appears that it does not support VESA video modes.

However, the old XFree86 SVGA server does work with your chipset and someone is working on a SVGA extension for their Thinkpad here:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....49;st=0

Also, it might be possible to get the "Trident framebuffer" to work with your laptop instead of the VESA one:

http://developer.osdl.org/dev....tfb.txt

Basically, you would start your computer up with a command like this one:

dsl vga=normal 3

and get to text mode. Then type something like this:

sudo su
modprobe tridentfb mode=800x600 bpp=16 noaccel fp
exit
xsetup.sh
(choose the xfbdev driver)
startx

It probably won't work, but it doesn't hurt to try.

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