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Subject: Re: Force FB off
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 14:39, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2010-12-14 21:18, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrot=
e:
>>
>>>
>>>booting with video=3Doff nor video=3Di915:off has any effect on skipping
>>>FB. What is the correct option to stop FB from taking over my boot
>>>consoles?
>>
>>For KMS its not fb taking over its the drm i915 driver, nomodeset will
>>stop it however X will no longer work since it relies on the kernel
>>driver.
>
> That would make sense. Furthermore I discovered that video=3Dvesafb:off
> also has no effect, but here it is clear because the source code ignores
> the return value of fb_get_options, and so ignores any off command.
>
> The real strange thing is that video=3Doffb:off on an Apple Xserve G5
> PPC64, while probably skipping OFFB initialization, still ends up in a
> 640x480 mode with a 8x16 font instead of retaining the PROM
> console/font.

That just means something different than offb is driving the console now.
What does /proc/fb say?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

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