The official upstream kernel at kernel.org, version 2.6.32.1 reveals that fbcon is now a hard dependency of both intel and radeon kms, and nvidia already ditched vgacon ages ago.
Personally, I don't like that vgacon was pulled out from under me so suddenly but unless someone wants to fight with the kernel devs over this... Confirmed deprecations of vgacon with KMS: intel (confirmed in attached 2.6.32.1 Kconfig file) nvidia (nouveau) (confirmed at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting) ati (radeon) (confirmed in attached 2.6.32.1 Kconfig file) ...and the list will likely only grow with the passage of time. Furthermore, I've noticed that almost universally fbcon is lauded as a wonderful feature, and even suggesting vgacon compatibility is pretty much blasphemy, especially with the intel-gfx devs on freenode. I sensed active hostility against vgacon and felt I needed to leave before finding myself forcibly removed from the channel. So it's official: vgacon is extinct, and fbcon is here to stay. I suspect that with trends the way they are, even the vga standard itself (which vgacon is based on) will be going bye bye in the future. Even BIOSes are starting to shun text mode at every point except the boot, and the open graphics card project hates it. Unless ubuntu wants to get into a fight with the upstreams over this then the correct response is most likely to officially deprecate vgacon in favor of fbcon. Under protest I advise that this bug be closed. ** Attachment added: "drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig in vanilla kernel version 2.6.32.1" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36931770/Kconfig -- Can't disable fbcon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/483301 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
