Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Aug 2004 14:41:18 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: disabling all video |
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On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:15:48 -0500 Davy Durham wrote:
| Perhaps is there a way/trick to accomplish this by explicitly breaking | (*at* runtime/kernel-parameter-time) the vga support that wouldn't cause | a panic?
Perhaps there could be a way (most likely there could be), but there isn't a way currently that I can find in source files or in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt .
| Yapo Sebastien wrote: | | >>Question: I would like the kernel not to use any of the video hardware | >>on the machine. Is there any run-time kernel parameter I can pass to | >>disable all video? (I tried console= to direct output to the serial | >>port, but ttys were still using the vga hardware.) My video card is | >>built onto the mother board, and there is no way I see to disable it | >>from the BIOS. | >> | >> | >> | >Remove "if EMBEDDED" in the VT and VT_CONSOLE section of drivers/char/Kconfig | >then reconfigure your kernel. | >You should find the old VT options in Device Drivers -> Character devices | > | >Regards | > | >Sebastien
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