Re: error while inserting stgfb module

[Khaled B. A. <kha...@gm...>]

I boot STLinux kernell using NFS.
Has the root filesystem an influence on the framebuffer module?

2008/10/7 Ramesh Ramaswamy <Ram...@st...>

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> What is your filesystem type JFFS, NFS or ?
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> Regards,
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> Ramesh
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> *From:* Khaled Ben Amor [mailto:kha...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 2:47 PM
> *To:* lin...@li...
> *Subject:* Re: error while inserting stgfb module
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> BTW, this error comes because you don't have /dev/fbv device.
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> I try to identify the framebuffer node and I found the fbX devices in /dev/
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> #ls -l /dev/
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> crwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29,   0 Apr  5  2008 fb0
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> crw-r-----  1 root root  29,   1 Apr  5  2008 fb1
> crw-r-----  1 root root  29,   2 Apr  5  2008 fb2
> crw-r-----  1 root root  29,   3 Apr  5  2008 fb3
> crw-r-----  1 root root  29,   4 Apr  5  2008 fb4
> crw-r-----  1 root root  29,   5 Apr  5  2008 fb5
> crw-r-----  1 root root  29,   6 Apr  5  2008 fb6
> crw-r-----  1 root root  29,   7 Apr  5  2008 fb7
> (...)
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> then I try to cat all these devices and the result is the same as the
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> # cat /dev/fb0
> cat: /dev/fb0: No such device
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> # cat /dev/fb1
> cat: /dev/fb1: No such device
> ..............
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> # cat /dev/fb7
> cat: /dev/fb7: No such device
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> I also tried to use fbset :
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> # fbset -s
> fbset: /dev/fb0: No such device
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> I don't know if I must recreate  them ? and if this is what caused "insmod
> stmfb_stb7100.ko " to crash?
> --
> amicalement
> khaled
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