Re: framebuffer broken in 2.6.16.x and 2.6.17-rc3 ?

Giuseppe Bilotta
2006-05-04T20:30:52Z

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.

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