On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 01:13:20AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 17:21, Chris Tillman wrote: > > It was already documented by Richard. But, I added some more details about > > what the problems look like and what machines have reported problems. > > Okay, cool. I wonder if's worth explaining the distinction between > problems caused by framebuffer itself and problems caused by bogl / > LANG_CHOOSER lossage. In the former case, using "nolangchooser" won't > help. Equally, "video=vga16:off" is hardware specific, so that isn't > ideal either, sigh.
Actually, I came across code in drivers/video/fbmem.c (2.4 kernel) the other day, which indicates video= works for all frame buffers. It supports the 'off' parameter itself, and for any other parameters it calls the framebuffer specific code if that code has a setup function. So, for the atari, for example, you might use "video=atafb:off", or for hppa "video=stifb:off". I havn't tested this, and don't know if it applies to 2.2. kernels. Where 'nolangchooser' just stops bterm running, this would disable the framebuffer driver itself. As I say, untested. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
