On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:36:39PM -0700, Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > >sorry this won't work, yaboot has no such option `video=' so the > >kernel never sees this. the correct way is: > > Interesting... I certainly believe you, since you would know. There > are number of sample yaboot configs floating around in the mailing > list archives with video=foo, obviously misinformation is being > spread. (What! misinformation on the internet?!? I'm shocked!)
it is indeed misinformation, though benh has been meaning to make yaboot treat `video=' just like `root=' right now yaboot knows nothing about it and will simply ignore the unknown variable. > The reason I assumed it was working was that I do see messages > referring to the aty128 video on boot. Perhaps I'm lucky and the > kernel is figuring stuff out for itself. I'll certainly try changing > the video= option to the correct append="video=..." version and see > if it affects my configuration for the better! the kernel is usually pretty good about figuring out the framebuffer on its own most of the time you only need to specify a video= argument when you want different modes then the kernel chooses by default. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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