On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:45:52AM +0100, Martin Collins wrote: > > Maybe my comments were misleading... I used a serial console. It > > doesn't mean that serial console is the only way. In fact, I had to > > pass console=ttyS0 to be able to get a serial console. So > > VGA/TGA/whatever support must be included in the kernel. > I wasn't mislead. I get no output on TGA nor VGA. If I hadn't found > your post I would not have bothered setting up a serial console. > With the RedHat (IIRC, it was > 7 years ago) you could have either > TGA or VGA but not both in the kernel. > Since only SRM is supported, and SRM only supports TGA, Er, where did you get this idea? SRM supports VGA just fine. What it doesn't support is PC BIOS-specific card initialization, AFAIK, but that's something else -- I've used a non-TGA video adapter in my system with SRM for years. > I guess the Debian kernels are built with TGA. No, tgafb is available only as a module, and this module is not included in the Debian installer at all right now. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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