I am trying to set up a CJK-capable fbiterm on the console, but I can't open the frame buffer. There is no /dev/fb device. root@momotaro /home/greg $ ls -l /dev/fb* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 28 21:12 /dev/fb-> fb0 crw------- 1 root root 29, 0 Sep 15 2003 /dev/fb0 root@momotaro /home/greg $less -f /dev/fb0 /dev/fb0: No such device I have a Sis 6326 AGP TruColor Graphics Accelerator card, for BIOS 1.26, which supports Vesa BIOS Ex 2.0, but on a cursory google search couldn't see any messages anywhere about frame buffer problems with this card. The card does not appear to come up when I run dmesg. One linuxquestions message about frame buffer opening/existing problems said vga should/could be defined in grub.conf, but setting it to vga=788, or vga=791 doesn't solve the problem. This is all pretty low level stuff, and I'm over my head. Here is what a frame buffer is: http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/FrameBuffer.html#99 The CJK people seem to be doing at a hardware level what can't be done at a software level. Correct me if this characterization is wrong. Do I have to reinstall, and try harder to get the monitor right? -- Greg Matheson, Taiwan
