Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:46:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Vga console in 2.1.112pre2 broken |
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Martin Mares wrote: > > VGA console framebuffer in 2.1.112pre2 is broken: all is good untill I > > try to switch between VT's. > > Please try vgacon. > > Hmmm, it seems we should remove vgafb as soon as possible and replace > mdafb by mdacon...
Yes. If multihead works between vgacon/mdacon/fbcon, that's fine for me. Too many people get confused by the difference between vgafb and vgacon.
But then vesafb no longer has a fallback in case you forget to supply the correct `vga=' option?
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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