Guys,
How come the 2.6 vga16fb driver doesn't change the display
to the framebuffer when it's modprobe'd any more like the 2.4
used to ?
Is this an intentional change, or a regression?
Dave
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Dave Jones wrote:
How come the 2.6 vga16fb driver doesn't change the display
to the framebuffer when it's modprobe'd any more like the 2.4
used to ?
Is this an intentional change, or a regression?
I think this was intentional, to allow both vgacon and vga16fb to co-exist.
James can tell you more about that.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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