Re: framebuffer problems on revA iMac

[Mark Hepburn <mark_h@postoffice.utas.edu.au>]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:56:18AM +1100, Mark Hepburn wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:34:56PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> > > Mark Hepburn wrote:
> > > > I finally cured the console problem by using a 'novideo' option  in my
> > > > yaboot.conf (after video=atyfb and aty128fb didn't work),
> > > 
> > > Note that the colon at then of video=aty(128)fb: is vital.
> > 
> > This is something I've been wondering about since a while: why??
> > 
> > I'd expect it to work with `video=atyfb' and `video=128fb', and even without
> > these since they will be autoprobed anyway.
> > 
> 
> Mine is working now with a 'video=atyfb' option and no colon; might make a difference
>  that this is just an option to yaboot and not an 'append' (or whatever) option.
> If that makes sense.
> 

I should also point out that it finally worked when I tried a benh kernel (seems to be
the standard advice for any problem!); 2.2.17pre20-ben3 I think it was.