i used uvesafb on this machine since about 2.6.29 (?) for splashutils without any issues. i x-checked my configuration but everything seems to be in a nice shape. i checked against the gentoo wiki and spocks guide. nevertheless maybe i'm missing something (sorry for the noise in this case). after upgrading to 2.6.37 uvesafb stopped working. dmesg tells me: uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=0) uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22 uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22 --- v86d is running: 37 root 20 0 808 52 12 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/v86d --- fbset open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory --- ls -la /dev/fb* ls: cannot access /dev/fb*: No such file or directory --- grep -i CONFIG_FB /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_FB=y # CONFIG_FB_DDC is not set # CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT is not set CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y # CONFIG_FB_CFB_REV_PIXELS_IN_BYTE is not set # CONFIG_FB_SYS_FILLRECT is not set # CONFIG_FB_SYS_COPYAREA is not set # CONFIG_FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT is not set # CONFIG_FB_FOREIGN_ENDIAN is not set # CONFIG_FB_SYS_FOPS is not set # CONFIG_FB_SVGALIB is not set # CONFIG_FB_MACMODES is not set # CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y # CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING is not set # CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set # CONFIG_FB_ARC is not set # CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set # CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set CONFIG_FB_UVESA=y # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set # CONFIG_FB_N411 is not set # CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set # CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA is not set # CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set # CONFIG_FB_LE80578 is not set # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set # CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set # CONFIG_FB_S3 is not set # CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE is not set # CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIA is not set # CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set # CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set # CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set # CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set # CONFIG_FB_VT8623 is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_FB_ARK is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM3 is not set # CONFIG_FB_CARMINE is not set # CONFIG_FB_GEODE is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set # CONFIG_FB_METRONOME is not set # CONFIG_FB_MB862XX is not set # CONFIG_FB_BROADSHEET is not set CONFIG_FB_CON_DECOR=y --- grep -i CONFIG_INIT /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32 CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/usr/share/v86d/initramfs" CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID=0 CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID=0 CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE=y # CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_GZIP is not set Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. dmesg 3. uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=0) Actual Results: 1. no /dev/fb0 2. errors in dmesg Expected Results: 1. /dev/fb0 should be somewhere
And your video card/drivers are ?
i'm on a nvidia ion platform (asus at3n7a-i): x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 USE="acpi -custom-cflags -gtk (-multilib)"
i ran a diff between my 36 and 37 config. don't know why, but [code]CONFIG_VM86=y[/code] was disabled. after enabling it again /dev/fb0 is present again, so is the fbsplash. sorry for the noise again!
