fbcon=map:... broke with 2.6.7 -> 2.6.9-rc3 transition

fbcon=map:... broke with 2.6.7 -> 2.6.9-rc3 transition

[Ville Syrjälä]

I just upgraded from 2.6.7 to 2.6.9-rc3 and the fbcon=map:... option 
stopped working.

My system has two matrox cards with /dev/fb1 being the head I want to use. 
So I boot with fbcon=map:111111. With 2.6.9-rc3 all I could see was 
some garbage and I had to log in via network to run con2fb manually. I 
don't have a monitor attached to the other card so I'm not sure if the 
output went there.

I seem to recall some patches from Tony regarding fbcon options. Were 
those applied to 2.6.9-rc3?

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


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Re: fbcon=map:... broke with 2.6.7 -> 2.6.9-rc3 transition

[Antonino A. Daplas]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 18:03, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> I just upgraded from 2.6.7 to 2.6.9-rc3 and the fbcon=map:... option
> stopped working.
>
> My system has two matrox cards with /dev/fb1 being the head I want to use.
> So I boot with fbcon=map:111111. With 2.6.9-rc3 all I could see was
> some garbage and I had to log in via network to run con2fb manually. I
> don't have a monitor attached to the other card so I'm not sure if the
> output went there.
>
> I seem to recall some patches from Tony regarding fbcon options. Were
> those applied to 2.6.9-rc3?

No, it's still in the mm tree.  It won't get into mainline until 2.6.10, I think.
Ask Andrew.

Tony




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Re: fbcon=map:... broke with 2.6.7 -> 2.6.9-rc3 transition

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 07:04:10PM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 18:03, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > I just upgraded from 2.6.7 to 2.6.9-rc3 and the fbcon=map:... option
> > stopped working.
> >
> > My system has two matrox cards with /dev/fb1 being the head I want to use.
> > So I boot with fbcon=map:111111. With 2.6.9-rc3 all I could see was
> > some garbage and I had to log in via network to run con2fb manually. I
> > don't have a monitor attached to the other card so I'm not sure if the
> > output went there.
> >
> > I seem to recall some patches from Tony regarding fbcon options. Were
> > those applied to 2.6.9-rc3?
> 
> No, it's still in the mm tree.  It won't get into mainline until 2.6.10, I think.

2.6.9-rc4-mm1 fixed the issue for me. Sorry for the noise :)

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
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