From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rui Santos Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:51:46 +0000 Subject: Re: Force FB off Message-Id: <4D08D602.9040005@grupopie.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie Hi Jan, You could boot with "vga=normal i915.modeset=0". This will provide you with a 25x80 console. You can also use vga=ext for an somethingx50 console. Regards, Rui On 15-12-2010 13:39, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2010-12-14 21:18, Dave Airlie wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >>> booting with video=off nor video=i915:off has any effect on skipping >>> FB. What is the correct option to stop FB from taking over my boot >>> consoles? >> For KMS its not fb taking over its the drm i915 driver, nomodeset will >> stop it however X will no longer work since it relies on the kernel >> driver. > That would make sense. Furthermore I discovered that video=vesafb:off > also has no effect, but here it is clear because the source code ignores > the return value of fb_get_options, and so ignores any off command. > > The real strange thing is that video=offb:off on an Apple Xserve G5 > PPC64, while probably skipping OFFB initialization, still ends up in a > 640x480 mode with a 8x16 font instead of retaining the PROM > console/font. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- Cumprimentos *Rui Santos* Email: rsantos@grupopie.com