maximilian attems wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
Max, if you have time, could you compile a kernel with vesafb enabled and test this?
plain vesafb works fine, just booted up, relevant config:
-- config-2.4.23 snippet # Frame-buffer support # CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set # CONFIG_FB_CLGEN is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM3 is not set # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA=y # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set # CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
We have vesafb as a module, and the installer modprobes it with no arguments or other config that I know of. The installer is still using the 2.4.22 kernel though.
As a module?! Does that really work? Vesafb must be initialized before the kernel switches to protected mode, ie VERY early in the boot process.
Thomas
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