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    SubjectRe: VESA fb console in 2.6.15
    Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com> wrote:
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    > > > I've noticed in several versions of 2.6.15 that VESA fb console
    > > > seems completely broken : it draws screen in several very slow
    > > > steps, making the whole display almos unusable. And it crashes
    > > > *very* often, for example when switching to X. The computer is
    > > > complety locked, and doesn't even respond to SysRQ.
    >
    > > > I use vga=0x31B as boot param.
    >
    > * "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> [051122 01:28]:
    >
    > > Try booting with:
    > > vga=0x31b video=vesafb:mtrr:3
    >
    > Thanks, this works fine with this param and also without any video=
    > param. I had a default video=vesafb:mtrr:2 in my grub conf file because
    > of mtrr problems a few kernel versions earlier (had been discussed
    > extensively on this list). This setting doesn't work well in 2.6.15.
    >

    Does 2.6.15-rc? work OK without any special boot options? (We want it to..)
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