On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Garrett Kajmowicz wrote:

I am working on a thin-client system, and ahve the following problem:

I would like to boot up using VESA, but replace the driver if other hardware 
is supported (ie Riva TNT).  Unfortunately, from the few tests that I have 
done, all that happens is a second fb device is created which displays to a 
non-existant video card.  Those were the results from con2fb, anyways.

Currently it's not possible to `promote' a device to a better driver, although
it would be useful for generic drivers like  vesafb, vga16fb, and offb.

I would consider not using VESA if there was another option (like VGA256).

http://www.google.com/search?q=vga256fb

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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