From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266213AbUHGBun (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:50:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267900AbUHGBun (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:50:43 -0400 Received: from asmtp-a063f35.pas.sa.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.220]:16029 "EHLO asmtp-a063f35.pas.sa.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266213AbUHGBum (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:50:42 -0400 Message-ID: <41143570.5070705@networkstreaming.com> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:50:40 -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: Yapo Sebastien CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: disabling all video References: <4113E0FE.1040506@networkstreaming.com> <200408070008.42519.sebastien.yapo@e-neyret.com> In-Reply-To: <200408070008.42519.sebastien.yapo@e-neyret.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: fecd8eaa9fd3d07f1b1abadc42a7f14674bf435c0eb9d47882885355c204f66be28ee0ef9fe3c8340f5f6141733323fa350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.206.95.96 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yapo Sebastien wrote: >>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. >> >> >> >Remove "if EMBEDDED" in the VT and VT_CONSOLE section of drivers/char/Kconfig >then reconfigure your kernel. >You should find the old VT options in Device Drivers -> Character devices > > > Aww, is there no way to disable it at run-time? I'm working with a precompiled kernel. Perhaps there's a trick to disable the card with a special interrupt? Set the terminal parameters to blanked from the kernel parameter line (like setterm does) Thanks