[wellylug] CCUX install stops at "vesafb"

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

Pete Black wrote:
> It sounds more like the problem is that the videocard in your machine is 
> either non-vesa compliant, or chokes on the default vesa framebuffer mode.
> 
> try appending the 'vga=ask' argument to the kernel and see if you can 
> select a mode that works.

I'm very new to linux and know nothing about this - I guess google is my 
friend ...
> 
> it's also conceivable that framebuffer would work on your machine given 
> the appropriate video= driver appended to the kernel, but the correct 
> args are hardware dependent and can be tricky as hell.
> 
> I have had very similar issues on macs installing PPC Linux, where 
> framebuffer is mandatory as well. Sorting it out can be an exercise in 
> frustration, and it is unforutnate that your hardware simply seems to be 
> incompatible with CCUX's requirements.
> 
> -Pete
> 
> 

Guess there's plenty of other distros out there to play with :-)


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Rosemary

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