Re: Console on frame buffer for mpc823

Dear Jan,

in message [off-list ref] you wrote:

primarily thank you for your help. But I have not
been lucky to solve my problem. May be I have
old kernel version - 2.4.3.

We did most of the framebuffer related work  with  our  2.4.4  kernel
tree;  I  don't  know  if older kernel versions have problems in that
area, but it's easily possible.

I have set all this CONFIGS_xxx except for CONFIG_CONSOLE_NOBLANK and
CONFIG_CONSOLE_NOCUR which are not supported in this kernel version.

These are extensions in our kernel tree to avoid  a  blinking  cursor
and  the  default  screen  blank  which  is not what you want on most
embedded systems.

How to test that frame buffer is assigned to text console ?

Do you see the penguin logo when booting?

[1] CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is set - it is hardwired
     to CONFIG_8xx - may be it is problem - isn't it ?

This is OK.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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We did most of the framebuffer related work  with  our  2.4.4  kernel
tree;  I  don't  know  if older kernel versions have problems in that
area, but it's easily possible

OK, I will try to upgrade to 2.4.4.

Do you see the penguin logo when booting?

No.

            Thank you.
                      HANYS


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