Geode lxfb framebuffer not working

Andres Salomon dilinger at queued.net
Wed Jun 11 15:35:17 EDT 2008


On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:11:51 -0700
Kushal Koolwal <kushalkoolwal at hotmail.com> wrote:

[...]
> 
> If I don't pass any parameter the system boots with the default
> 80x25 console. A year back I do remember taking the lxfb geode patch
> from the old linux-geode mailing list and I had applied to the 2.6.22
> kernel and that had worked just fine. Did something change since then?
> 
> Also it seems that someone else also had a similar problem:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/27/173
> 
> Any ideas/thoughts?
> 

As Jordan had asked in the thread you supplied, does using fbset
work?  Does using lxfb.mode_option=1024x768 at 60 make a difference?



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