Hello Arthur,

thanks for reply and yes, fbset reports the same, since I used output
of fbset to fill fb.modes file. Here are my fb dev files

askar@athena ~ $ ls /dev/fb* -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 3 19:13 /dev/fb0 -> fb/0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 1 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/fb1
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 2 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/fb2
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 3 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/fb3
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 4 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/fb4
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 5 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/fb5
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 6 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/fb6
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 7 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/fb7
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 63 Apr 13 21:01 /dev/fbsplash

/dev/fb:
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 Apr 13 21:01 0

I wouldn't mind to recompile the kernel; but the fact is that
everything else works correctly, including the nice livecd-2006.0
gensplash theme.

And which would be the special hardware drivers that are incompatible
with fb?! Currently I use simple vesafb... and disabled all the others.