Mark Hill wrote:

> The following FAQ entry may help in finding the framebuffer options,
> although if it's out-of-date with 2.6, please let us know.
> <http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/92.html>. Thanks.
>

Thanks Mark:

Developmental and/or experimental modules are still there in 2.6 kernel,
albeit new ones, as well as frame buffer support. So "~faq/92.html" should
not be too much out of date.

As my problem of not getting screen going; I compiled support for my NVIDIA
card as a module (M instead of Y) and all was fine. I might just have found
a kernel bug since saying yes to:

CONFIG_FB_RIVA=( )

was failing on this machine.

what I have is this:

# Frame-buffer support

CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m

and it works.