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vesafb: probe of Linux Frame Buffer System vesafb0 failed with error -6 vesafb0 failed with error -6

April 27, 2005 - 2:01am
Submitted by vishal.soni on April 27, 2005 - 2:01am.
Linux

I got to study Frame Buffer System of Linux 2.6.8 kernel so that i understand Linux Display System.
I am kindaa trying to find the kernel functions which are actually resposible for drawing on the screen....

So i compiled the option thru make menuconfig
Device Drivers-------------> Graphics Support ----------> Virtual Frame Buffer Support.

The description of the same is

This is a `virtual' frame buffer device. It operates on a chunk of │
│ unswappable kernel memory instead of on the memory of a graphics │
│ board. This means you cannot see any output sent to this frame │
│ buffer device, while it does consume precious memory. The main use │
│ of this frame buffer device is testing and debugging the frame │
│ buffer subsystem. Do NOT enable it for normal systems! To protect │
│ the innocent, it has to be enabled explicitly at boot time using the │
│ kernel option `video=vfb:'.

and when i give video=vfb: as boot parameters, it gets stuck after
mapping physical ram
v.i.z
the last messages diplayed, while booting are
0MB HIGHMEM available
511MB LOWMEM available
found SMP MP-table at 000faa60
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000e9e10
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ CPQ0064 0x20040115 0x0000000) @0x000e5640

and it stays there for some time... 2-3 minutes and then i get the X Server running
Cntrl-Alt-F1 ........ shows the same above message.......
last being

By default i have boot param rhgb , which i deleted

As i am doing remote kernel debugging therefore when i add more boot params
gdb gdbttyS=0 gdbbaud=115200 along with video=vfb:
below are the last messages displayed....
0MB HIGHMEM available
511MB LOWMEM available
found SMP MP-table at 000faa60
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000e9e10

I also tried adding one more boot param
acpi=off
then the last message on the console is
0MB HIGHMEM available
511MB LOWMEM available
found SMP MP-table at 000faa60
DMI 2.3 present.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4

and when i don't add video=vfb: and instead use default boot params

i.e rhgb gdb gdbttyS=0 gdbbaud=115200

I get the remote debugging control
Waiting for connection from remote gdb ...
Though there is a message in (/var/log/messages)
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
Its actually, vesafb returns -ENXIO ("No such device or
address")

any pointers/explanation on why and what is happening..

Your inputs would be very much appreciated...........

blaa

April 29, 2005 - 1:26pm
Anonymous (not verified)

well, forget VirtualFrameBuffer (vfb) it's a "NULL"-driver (means it doesn't do anything, not even printing something on the screen...)

if you want to use vesafb... then look in path_to_linux's_source/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
for a how to...

probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6

June 9, 2005 - 4:26pm

In reply to: vesafb: probe of Linux Frame Buffer System vesafb0 failed with error -6 vesafb0 failed with error -6
Posted by vishal.soni on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 23:01

I got the same 'error -6' message in my first Logwatch as a 'kernel error'.(I've just installed Fedora3, but it's the same error...)

If it doesn't do anything, as the previous comment, blaa
Comment posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:26
indicates, does it mean I shouldn't worry about it?

Though I'd like to take Logwatch seriously.

I'm sure I'm one of the innocent it's disabled to protect :)

?

had the same problem

August 21, 2006 - 8:56am
טיסות (not verified)

Frame Buffer was never good to me...

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