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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #129910
  2. Comment #108

Comment 108 for bug 129910

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Salva Ferrer (salva-ferrer) wrote : Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

Changing my previous comment, for my nvidia card the nvidiafb driver is not needed, a wrong testing procedure made me think that. Vesafb is more than enough as Jean has noted.

So the suggestions by NeverMind, satkata and Absorbed are basically the same and worked as is for me without needing additional modules for my nvidia card. Maybe other cards require other modules instead of the vesafb, maybe that is the reason why it is not working for evryone.

If this is the case this links can be useful to find which fb module needs each card:

http://www.linux-fbdev.org/
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html