> I followed Florin and Carl's suggestions, but I'm still unable to get
> anything working with ATI Xpert2000 card. I tried compiling a kernel with
> framebuffer support and I don't see the cute little penguin along with the
> rest of the kernel messages. I suppose it's possible that I have a bad
> card. Any other ideas?

you'll need to pass your kernel a video= or vga= option at boot time to
enable the framebuffer. the Framebuffer-HOWTO has the table for what
values=what resolutions. start with 640x480 (vga=301 or something like
that... don't quote me).

Carl Soderstrom
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