[Linux-fbdev-users] Problems with loading i810fb (/dev/fb0 missing)

[Henryk F. <hf...@br...>]

Hi all,

I am using 82852/855GM integrated graphics device on my Centrino Laptop, 
running kernel 2.6.11 and X.org 6.8.2.

I would like to have simultaneously two features:
1) be able to switch to console via Ctrl-Alt-F1
2) run X with framebuffer driver

I can run VESA framebuffer (using video=791 in lilo.conf), but it
does not allow me to switch to console (I get black screen), and I cannot
see boot messages either.
So I tried i810fb, but I cannot make it work. On my system (Xandros Linux 
3.02) , i810fb is compiled as kernel module. If I load it by modprobe i810fb,
it appears to get loaded, and  lsmod | grep i810fb  gives the output:

i810fb                 31872  0
vgastate               10624  1 i810fb
agpgart                33576  4 i810fb,drm,intel_agp

Unfortunately, the device /dev/fb is missing, and fbset gives error:
open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

Am I doing something wrong? Or is there some other option I could
explore to get the features I listed at the beginning? Any suggestions
or pointer will be much appreciated.

Henryk