Re: Bug#339058: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14 frame buffer no longer enabled in binary package
Curt Howland <howland@priss.com> wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686
> Version: 2.6.14-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> First, thank you for all your astounding work keeping Debian the best
> distribution bar none.
>
> Until 2.6.14, I was able to use "vga=791" for framebuffer in lilo.conf,
> and found the substantially larger console very useful. "vga=791" no
> longer functions, in fact it causes the console to fail entirely. I
> looked in the /etc/yaird/Default.cfg and it says "OPTIONAL MODULE fbcon"
> so maybe the framebuffer has to be compiled in. Sorry I cannot be more
> help, I tried compiling my own 2.6.14, and got hopelessly lost even
> though compiling in the frame buffer did work.
Could you see if this problem still exists in 2.6.14-3?
As of 2.6.14 VESA_FB is no longer modular, however this turned
out to mean that FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE needed to be manually loaded
on systems that were previously using vga=... This can be
fixed by telling the initrd generator to load FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
on boot, however as of -3 it is built into the kernel to avoid
this problem.
--
Horms
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