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SubjectRe: disabling VESAFB no longer locks up VT (was Re: 2.4.10-r1 MTRR bug)
Daniel Drake wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> Steve <s.egbert@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> For the Athlon 2100, I get the following outputs and then the VGA
>>> console is frozen from further output (but it doesn't prevent the
>>> full bootup into X windows session of which I am able to resume
>>> normal Linux/X session, but not able to regain any virtual console
>>> session.)
>>
>>
>>
>> hm. Not sure what could have caused that.
>
>
> This may be a problem in Gentoo's kernels, we offer an experimental
> version of vesafb...

Disabling the VESAFB resulted in regaining control of the VTs (virtual
terminals).
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