aRTee Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 fbdev is the framebuffer device, which is some way to get X going on svga resolution; what is used during install of mandrake for instance to have some kind of graphics. Like Windows in safe mode, that works even without graphics drivers - compatibility mode if you will... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 (edited) fbdev is the framebuffer device, which is some way to get X going on svga resolution; what is used during install of mandrake for instance to have some kind of graphics. Like Windows in safe mode, that works even without graphics drivers - compatibility mode if you will... I wondered because, when I tried SuSe 9.0 Evalution CD, I messed a bit with Kaffeïne, and instructed it to use the 'fbdev' driver. Is that possible? Anyway, when I tried to start it up again, it would complain and exit at startup. Probably because SuSe instructed X to use the nVidia driver (or a general driver) instead of in fbdev / 'safe' mode??? On the internet I found you could 'reset' the configuration to the standard config through a CLI option, but it wasn't possible here. Older version I think (or maybe it just would not work on a LiveCD?) Sorry about the questions, but this is getting interesting. In fact, I haven't been that curious about my Linux box's interals since a long time. Then again, it has been a long time since I've been so enthousiastic about Linux. Edited April 8, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 On the internet I found you could 'reset' the configuration to the standard config through a CLI option, but it wasn't possible here. Older version I think (or maybe it just would not work on a LiveCD?) You could reset ??? I dont follow exactly what you are talking about resetting. I may try this fbdev thing tonite. Ill post what I find. Thanks for another lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 (edited) On the internet I found you could 'reset' the configuration to the standard config through a CLI option, but it wasn't possible here. Older version I think (or maybe it just would not work on a LiveCD?) You could reset ??? I dont follow exactly what you are talking about resetting. I may try this fbdev thing tonite. Ill post what I find. Thanks for another lead. No, I read it was possible to 'reset' (meaning: roll back) KAFFEINE (media player) to its standard configuration using a command line (command + option). It was not possible in my version of KAFFEINE, but I read it was implemented in a later version, also to solve similar problems. Edited April 8, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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