From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: framebuffer broken in 2.6.16.x and 2.6.17-rc3 ?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 04:48:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445A68AC.3090207@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gs7iuaocrzmp.s33e3qhm21bl.dlg@40tude.net>
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:51:13 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>
>> I'm surprised noone has raised that issue yet, so I'm wondering if I'm
>> missing something obvious :) When using the fb in 2.6.16.x and
>> 2.6.17-rc3, the screen stays just black, nothing is displayed... I'm
>> using the regular unaccelerated vesa framebuffer.
>
> It may sound silly and it's probably not relevant to your case, but I
> had this kind of result during a kernel upgrade some versions ago when
> I forgot the fbcon module.
>
Not silly because that is exactly what happened. He sent me his config in a
private mail.
I don't know what method he used to upgrade his kernel, but the setting
changed from 'y' to 'm', and I've received quite a few reports from
different users on this lately...
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-04 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-02 19:51 framebuffer broken in 2.6.16.x and 2.6.17-rc3 ? Olivier Fourdan
2006-05-02 21:09 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-05-04 20:29 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2006-05-04 20:48 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2006-05-04 21:28 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2006-05-04 21:44 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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