From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262262AbULMNoi (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:44:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262263AbULMNoi (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:44:38 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-99-153-203.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.99.153.203]:400 "EHLO blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262262AbULMNof (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:44:35 -0500 Message-ID: <41BD9CCC.6010005@blue-labs.org> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:44:44 -0500 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: Danny Beaudoin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Description should be updated References: <41BCEB0A.3060807@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <41BCEB0A.3060807@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070206070400060608080102" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070206070400060608080102 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Danny, attached is a patch you may like. David Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Danny Beaudoin wrote: > >> Hi again! >> In Device Drivers/Graphics Support/Console display driver support/VGA >> test console (NEW) > --------------070206070400060608080102 Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="VGA_CONSOLE.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="VGA_CONSOLE.diff" --- drivers/video/console/Kconfig~ 2004-12-13 08:41:30.926219984 -0500 +++ drivers/video/console/Kconfig 2004-12-13 08:41:30.927219832 -0500 @@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ depends on !ARCH_ACORN && !ARCH_EBSA110 && !4xx && !8xx && !SPARC32 && !SPARC64 && !M68K && !PARISC default y help - Saying Y here will allow you to use Linux in text mode through a - display that complies with the generic VGA standard. Virtually - everyone wants that. + This is always enabled on X86 systems. If your system is embedded + or not X86 and you want to use Linux in text mode through a + display that complies with the generic VGA standard, say Y here. The program SVGATextMode can be used to utilize SVGA video cards to their full potential in text mode. Download it from . - Say Y. + If unsure, say Y (default). # if [ "$CONFIG_PCI" = "y" -a "$CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE" = "y" ]; then # bool ' Allow VGA on any bus?' CONFIG_VGA_HOSE --------------070206070400060608080102--