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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23: No text consoles with FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:20:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711052320.31003.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192340601.6548.11.camel@daplas>

On Sunday 14 October 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:13 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > I could solve this issue in two ways:
> > - boot with VGA=791 parameter (initial boot was without VGA= parameter)
> > - compile kernel without FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY set (I also
> >   unset FB_VIRTUAL, but without its boot param that should be a no-op)
>
> After looking at vfb.c again, it seems the default is for vfb to be
> enabled and you have to actively disable vfb either with
>
> video=vfb:disable or video=vfb:off
>
> I have to change this behavior. In the meantime, try one of the above
> options.

I'm not sure if there's been any progress on this issue, but to make sure it 
does not get forgotten, I've just filed a BR under drivers/video(other) and 
added that as blocker to #9056 (2.6.23 regressions):
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9310

Cheers,
FJP

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-05 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200710132013.24024.elendil@planet.nl>
2007-10-14  5:18 ` 2.6.23: No text consoles with FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY Antonino A. Daplas
2007-10-14  5:43 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-10-14  9:21   ` Frans Pop
2007-11-05 22:20   ` Frans Pop [this message]

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