From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: steve@flconsult.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: ##3 Frame Buffer Questions?
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:44:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155980680.10015.3.camel@daplas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <015101c6c339$41a607b0$6400a8c0@fleballnchain>
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 22:43 -0400, Steve Spano wrote:
> Hi Antonino,
>
> We got the buffer working and showing now in the proc folder
>
> So we can now do a cat random > fb0 - and that works.
>
> Do you (or someone) know the correct pattern of magic #defines that will
> put the console up on the VGA? I would like to see the startup
> messages/login prompt on the VGA display.
CONFIG_VT=y;
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER=m or y (of course)
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y (or CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m followed
by modprobe fbcon)
CONFIG_FONT_8x16 (or any built-in fonts available).
In your boot parameters, include console=tty0, just to be sure.
Tony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-19 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-18 14:30 ##3 Frame Buffer Questions? Steve Spano
2006-08-19 0:19 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-19 2:43 ` Steve Spano
2006-08-19 9:44 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2006-08-19 19:46 ` Steve Spano
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