# Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc6

- From: Dave Airlie \<airlied@gmail.com\>
- Date: 2011-02-24 00:43:43 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2011/02/3682131
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2011/02/3681871/t.md

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Linus Torvalds
[ref] wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Anca Emanuel [ref] wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks like nouveafb took over from vesafb. Did you do anything special
>>> to trigger this?
>>
>> No. Just boot the system.
>
> Every boot?
>
> And just out of interest, what happens if you don't have the vesafb
> driver at all?
>

I think this is a race condition somewhere with plymouth getting
access to vesafb before it gets kicked off the hw,

I'm assuming removing the vga= line from the command line will stop it,

Dave.
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