Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:50:40 -0500 | From | Davy Durham <> | Subject | Re: disabling all video |
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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 > > > Aww, is there no way to disable it at run-time? I'm working with a precompiled kernel.
Perhaps there's a trick to disable the card with a special interrupt? Set the terminal parameters to blanked from the kernel parameter line (like setterm does)
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