Need help !
Hi all
do I need to add any fonts in fonts directory to see the any console output through fbcon ? Right now I am able to see the blinking cursor but any data from it .
can somebody help me what should I do to see the cosole output on a frame buffer device ? The frame buffer driver is working in graphics mode . I have trouble in console mode .
thanks in advance,
sri
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Quoted 2 lines · Srinivasa Deevi
do I need to add any fonts in fonts directory to see the any console output through fbcon ?
You shouldn't need to.
Have you set the fb_info[.*|.var.*|.fix.*] fields to reflect your hardware? Try running 'fbset -i > stats.txt' blind from the console and affirm that the settings are currect.
-dte
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On Mon, 2004-06-14 12:21:35 -0700, Srinivasa Deevi <sdeevi%[email protected]> wrote in message <[email protected]>:
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do I need to add any fonts in fonts directory to see the any console output through fbcon ? Right now I am able to see the blinking cursor but any data from it .
No, you don't need to add fonts, but make sure you've choosen at least one of them:)
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can somebody help me what should I do to see the cosole output on a frame buffer device ? The frame buffer driver is working in graphics mode . I have trouble in console mode .
I've seen that, too, when I wrote a FB driver. My bug was that I was missing
#ifdef CONFIG_VT
#ifdef CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE /* * We need a dummy console up at cons_init time, otherwise there'll * be no VTs allocated for the real fbdev console to later take over. */ conswitchp = &dummy_con;
#endif
#endif
in arch-dependand code (for me, adding it to ./arch/vax/kernel/setup.c did the job).
MfG, JBG
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