On Monday 24 November 2003 09:11 am, Gerald Combs wrote:

> If you're feeling less adventurous you might want to make sure your
> kernel is compiled with a framebuffer device (/dev/fb<x>), set its
> permissions accordingly, and tell links to use the "fb" driver instead.

Looking in /lib/modules/.../drivers/video, there are a number of framebuffer 
modules depending on which chipset you have.  Given that the driver for X 
doesn't appear to work properly, what are the chances that the framebuffer 
drivers are good?  Anyway, if you can figure out which module to use, no need 
to recompile the kernel.