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Courtney Thomas wrote:

> I need to run QtPartEd to adjust some partitions and it requires a
> framebuffer to enable graphical mode, which I have indicated at bootup
> as fb800, i.e. 800x600.
> 
> But when I attempt to run qtparted, I get...
> 
>     can't open framebuffer device /dev/fb0
>     driver cannot connect
> 
> Since it was nonexistant at bootup, I created /dev/fd0 by...
> 
>     mknod fb0 c 29 0
> 
> What's wrong and how can it be cured ?
> 
> Thank you,
> Courtney

There was, IIRC, a special hack to getting framebuffers to work on
S3 Trio64 family video boards... It's been so terribly long since I
had one of those, tho, that I can't remember for the *life* of me
what it was.  If you want, you can borrow my card just for running
the QtPartEd tool.

	- Mike

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