[ltp] Framebuffer on T60 (Intel 945 / SXGA+) drives me nuts

[Peter Lemken]

On Friday 14 September 2007 10:03:25 Jeff D wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Peter Lemken wrote:

[...]

> > Does ANYONE have an Intel 945 running at 1400x1050 framebuffer console?
>
> you might want to try hwinfo --framebuffer , that should give you the
> correct modes you can use.

There is no 1400x1050 listed, the maximum is 1280x1024. I'd be happy to use 
that, but I can't get framebuffer to work at all. All I get is 80x25 VESA 
console text mode.

I tried building an initrd that explicitly includes intelfb, but that doesn't 
work either. I can manually load intelfb later, but of course that doesn't 
give me /dev/fb0.


dmesg|grep intelfb
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: intelfb 
root=UUID=92f2ef22-474e-4db2-98ac-07282d4e4003 ro video=intelfb
[  274.256000] intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 
830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/915GM/945G/945GM chipsets
[  274.256000] intelfb: Version 0.9.4
[  274.256000] intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 945GM, aperture size 256MB, stolen 
memory 7932kB
[  274.256000] intelfb: cannot acquire agp
[  306.828000] intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 
830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/915GM/945G/945GM chipsets
[  306.828000] intelfb: Version 0.9.4
[  306.832000] intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 945GM, aperture size 256MB, stolen 
memory 7932kB
[  306.832000] intelfb: Non-CRT device is enabled ( LVDS port ).  Disabling 
mode switching.
[  306.832000] intelfb: Video mode must be programmed at boot time.

Bummer. Any ideas?