From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: framebuffer broken in 2.6.16.x and 2.6.17-rc3 ?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 05:44:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445A75AD.7090105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1vsfcg3epbb29.t96cunohji42$.dlg@40tude.net>
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2006 04:48:44 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
>> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:51:13 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know what method he used to upgrade his kernel, but the setting
>> changed from 'y' to 'm', and I've received quite a few reports from
>> different users on this lately...
>
> Well, when it happened to me it was because I switched from a distro
> kernel to a custom build and so the error was entirely on my part. I
> still think that some kind of warning in the dmesg or appropriate
> wording in the help for the framebuffer devices or for fbcon would
> help sort this FAQ out.
This is already documented in Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt. Although a
warning in the help text of vesafb might help.
Tony
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-04 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-02 19:51 framebuffer broken in 2.6.16.x and 2.6.17-rc3 ? Olivier Fourdan
2006-05-02 21:09 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-05-04 20:29 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2006-05-04 20:48 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-05-04 21:28 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2006-05-04 21:44 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
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