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From: Guy Yasko <gyasko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to disable 'rivafb_pan_display START' at boot ?
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:48:12 -0500
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On 2006.1.7, Adam Felix Bogacki stated:


> I have been trying various boot parameters to disable 'rivafb' without
> success, including
> 
> BOOT_DEBUG=3
> debian/installer/framebuffer=false
> video=vga16:off
> console=ttys0
> console=tty1

Isn't it video=ofonly for the openfirmware framebuffer and
video=nvidiafb to specify the newer nvidia driver?  In any case,
compiling a kernel without rivafb would seem to be a good idea.


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Guy Yasko -- gyasko@sympatico.ca