Echoes of the underwater world

Took me quite some time to figure out how to enable radeonfb or nvidiafb on Dapper Drake. Finally found it today so i write it down for other people searching like me :

There’s a file called /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer with a big list of blacklisted framebuffer kernel modules. Delete the line that hold your beloved framebuffer driver, dpkg-reconfigure you current linux-image and reboot.

Warning loading radeonfb and nvidiafb on recent GFX card can crash your machine and it might be tricky to get it back up, use that tip at your own risk.