Fw: Re: disabling VESAFB no longer locks up VT (was Re: 2.4.10-r1 MTRR bug)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Are you folks aware of this lkml thread??

Thanks.

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:50:42 -0800
From: Steve <s.egbert@sbcglobal.net>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: disabling VESAFB no longer locks up VT (was Re: 2.4.10-r1 MTRR bug)


Daniel Drake wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> Steve <s.egbert@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> For the Athlon 2100, I get the following outputs and then the VGA 
>>> console is frozen from further output (but it doesn't prevent the 
>>> full bootup into X windows session of which I am able to resume 
>>> normal Linux/X session, but not able to regain any virtual console 
>>> session.)
>>
>>
>>
>> hm.  Not sure what could have caused that.
>
>
> This may be a problem in Gentoo's kernels, we offer an experimental 
> version of vesafb... 

Disabling the VESAFB resulted in regaining control of the VTs (virtual 
terminals).


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