Command Line Interfaces

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 5 20:44:35 UTC 2007


On 10/05/2007 01:37 PM, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> NoOp pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 10/5/2007 4:13 PM:
>> Do this (assumes that hwinfo is not installed):
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install hwinfo
>>
>> when it finishes installing:
>>
>> $ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
>>
>> The output of that will show you: 1) if framebuffer is supported by your
>> graphics card/chipset, and 2) what resolutions are available to you.
> 
> Apparently there's no framebuffer.

Check your bios. Some bios have a setting to turn framebuffer on/off.





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