On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:56:18AM +1100, Mark Hepburn wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:34:56PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > Mark Hepburn wrote: > > > > I finally cured the console problem by using a 'novideo' option in my > > > > yaboot.conf (after video=atyfb and aty128fb didn't work), > > > > > > Note that the colon at then of video=aty(128)fb: is vital. > > > > This is something I've been wondering about since a while: why?? > > > > I'd expect it to work with `video=atyfb' and `video=128fb', and even without > > these since they will be autoprobed anyway. > > > > Mine is working now with a 'video=atyfb' option and no colon; might make a > difference > that this is just an option to yaboot and not an 'append' (or whatever) > option. > If that makes sense. >
I should also point out that it finally worked when I tried a benh kernel (seems to be the standard advice for any problem!); 2.2.17pre20-ben3 I think it was.
