From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Davy Durham Subject: disabling all video Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:53:15 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4113FDCB.2030307@networkstreaming.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Sorry if this is the wrong list to ask this.. direct me to the correct list if so... Question: I would like the kernel not to use any of the video hardware on the machine. Is there any run-time kernel parameter I can pass to disable all video? (I tried console= to direct output to the serial port, but ttys were still using the vga hardware.) My video card is built onto the mother board, and there is no way I see to disable it from the BIOS. I was hoping there was an option such as vga=disable or video=null or something like that, but I've looked thru the docs and cannot find anything. Thanks, Davy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs