Comment 12 for bug 189621

hi,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:26:24 -0000 Michael Sotnikov wrote:

> I use default kernel (iterpid):
> $ uname -a
> Linux astar-laptop 2.6.26-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 18:39:53 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> my config:
> $ cat /boot/config-2.6.26-4-generic | grep VESA
> CONFIG_FB_UVESA=m
> # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set
>
> after clean start without any "vga=" or "video=":
> $ dmesg |grep -i uvesa
> [ 2.422795] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-3)
> [ 2.422795] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
> [ 2.422795] uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22
>
> does it mean that it can't find v86d on / ?

Yes it looks like this.
Do you have v86d 0.1.5-1ubuntu2? If so, it should have added itself to
the initrd already... Can you look inside of it (gzip and cpio are your
friends) and tell me that there is a v86d inside?

> can you help us to figure out how to put it to initrd? I think that forum is a much better than bugzilla: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=860719

I don't have an account there, and to be honest: I don't want to have
one :)