The following patch automatically adds CONFIG_FBCON_CFB[8,16,32] if the tridentfb driver (CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT) was selected. Without the patch I get: fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8 kernel: fbcon_setup: type 0 (aux 0, depth 8) not supported and the screen stays black in case tridentfb was the only selected fb-driver. The second part of the patch only inserts named initializers for some structs in tridentfb.c. Helge