FS#5103 - Console framebuffers
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Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 24 July 2006, 14:59 GMT
Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 24 July 2006, 14:59 GMT
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I'm not sure when it happened, as I've been using vesafb for
some time, but the additional framebuffers (radeonfb,
nvidiafb, etc etc) are no longer part of the stock kernel.
These are actually very important for those of us with
non-standard resolutions and want them in framebuffer
mode.
Please, when you release the next version, can you add these back into the kernel config? |
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this should probably be checked into with some more depth however.
In kernel26, im pretty sure the kernel chooses the relevant fb driver automatically, which is where the problems are most likely to occur -- it choosing radeonfb which would then conflict with fglrx.
It may be possible to explicitly choose using video= as implied by the docs, however I don't know whether this overrides the auto picking. http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
In kernel26beyond, the driver is specified in the video= option passed at boot, again, im pretty sure this overrides the auto picking.
I'll look into this a bit more -- i've got some changes I want to make in the fb layer anyway.
James
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/2121