Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:01:51 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Kernel videocard support YES or NO? |
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > * There is already fbcon for other (non-PC) architectures. > > > > > > don't know very less about `other architectures' except a bit > > > on DEC AXP. and here X11 works fine right now and AFAIK > > > fbcon is no real problem running XFree86 (is it? don't know > > > too much here...) > > > > On machines with VGA text mode, `fbcon' uses `vgacon'[*], a VGA text (80x25) > > mode driver on top of the abstract console driver. Since the user space > > abstraction doesn't change, X keeps on working like it did before. > > Ok, question: Is there way to enable fbcon on i386 architecture? Its > config in is not including and I'm feeling assumption that I should > not do that...
Not with the standard kernel. But you can enable vgacon on i386, AXP and PPC (PReP) in the CVS tree at vger.rutgers.edu:
ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/README.CVS
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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