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Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 05:44:13 +0800
From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: framebuffer broken in 2.6.16.x and 2.6.17-rc3 ?
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Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2006 04:48:44 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> 
>> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:51:13 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>>>
>>> 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...
> 
> Well, when it happened to me it was because I switched from a distro
> kernel to a custom build and so the error was entirely on my part. I
> still think that some kind of warning in the dmesg or appropriate
> wording in the help for the framebuffer devices or for fbcon would
> help sort this FAQ out.

This is already documented in Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt. Although a
warning in the help text of vesafb might help.

Tony