Re: hi-res fb console with 2.6.0-testX ?

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

On  7 Sep 03 at 22:58, Dave Jones wrote:

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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:51:51PM +0200, cheapisp@sensewave.com wrote:
 > The kernel command lines which work with vesafb and matroxfb in 2.4 do not 
 > work for me in 2.6.0-testX.                                                
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 > kernel (hd0,0)/bz-2.6.0-t4mm3 root=/dev/hdc2 video=matrox:vesa:0x11A       
 > kernel (hd0,0)/bz-2.6.0-t4mm3 root=/dev/hdc2 vga=794                       
vga= seems to have changed semantics. (Which is a polite way of saying
"has regressed" IMO), this has been reported several times before, but
it doesn't seem to be too high on peoples 'must fix' list.

 > Doing fbset "vesa11A" causes the monitor to lose the sync.                 

last I looked, fbset needed updates for the changes in 2.6

video= changed sematic too. Now you have to do
video=matroxfb:...., not video=matrox:....

And /dev/fb* changed semantic too, so forget about using fbset on your
box.

I really like to see this fixed. IMHO fbcon should be build on top of fbdev,
not vice-versa.

And whole fb subsystem changed semantic, so do not build both
vesafb & matroxfb into the kernel - either one or another, or
you'll be definitely surprised what will happen (and I'm almost
sure that blank screen is not what you want).

What's wrong with the resource system that prevents this from working?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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