From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268263AbUHFTyM (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:54:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268271AbUHFTwS (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:52:18 -0400 Received: from asmtp-a063f35.pas.sa.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.220]:5560 "EHLO asmtp-a063f35.pas.sa.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268270AbUHFTum (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:50:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4113E0FE.1040506@networkstreaming.com> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:50:22 -0500 From: Davy Durham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: disabling all video Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: fecd8eaa9fd3d07f1b1abadc42a7f14674bf435c0eb9d47882885355c204f66b0b128ab792b17cb0a29c447f8fe0445b350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 65.217.35.159 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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