From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
To: krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: bug #13249 - problem with intelfb on i845gm
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 08:25:48 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090520.082548.01295500.wl@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090520075138.c8c7d84d.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
>> I'm doing a git bisect right now to find out why
>> CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT doesn't work as advertised.
>
> Probably, it does work as supposed to. The
> CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT tells Linux to allow VESA modes values
> for the "vga=" switch. It also switches on the VESA graphics modes.
> However, without a framebuffer which makes use of the graphics
> display (vesafb, intelfb, sisfb) it only garbles screen.
Well, I use the intelfb driver (CONFIG_FB_INTEL=m), but I get a black
screen for any VESA mode...
Werner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-20 6:26 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20090518.124818.237161585.wl@gnu.org>
2009-05-18 12:51 ` bug #13249 - problem with intelfb on i845gm Krzysztof Helt
2009-05-18 13:29 ` Werner LEMBERG
2009-05-20 5:51 ` Krzysztof Helt
2009-05-20 6:25 ` Werner LEMBERG [this message]
2009-05-20 8:44 ` Krzysztof Helt
2009-05-20 9:26 ` Werner LEMBERG
2009-05-20 8:50 ` Krzysztof Helt
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