From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264231AbUHGTP6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 15:15:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264256AbUHGTPx (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 15:15:53 -0400 Received: from asmtp-a063f31.pas.sa.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.133]:1484 "EHLO asmtp-a063f31.pas.sa.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264231AbUHGTPu (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 15:15:50 -0400 Message-ID: <41152A64.6060405@networkstreaming.com> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:15:48 -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=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: fecd8eaa9fd3d07f1b1abadc42a7f14674bf435c0eb9d47882885355c204f66bb15fc9216f987525d366a8a9832c3824350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.206.95.96 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Perhaps is there a way/trick to accomplish this by explicitly breaking (*at* runtime/kernel-parameter-time) the vga support that wouldn't cause a panic? 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 > >Regards > >Sebastien >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" 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.tux.org/lkml/ > >