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Re: what happened to vesafb support in 2.6.13-1?



On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:00:55PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 05:14:06PM +0200, Willi Mann wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Can someone please tell me what happened to vesafb support in 2.6.13-1? 
> > (CONFIG_FB_VESA=m in 2.6.12-10 vs. "not set" in 2.6.13-1)
> > I get a blank screen when booting with vga=791.
> > 
> > Willi
> > 
> 
> the old legacy modular vesafb patch got dropped.
> and it seems it was overlooked to set them to yes.

I think I might have made that change, and at the very least
I remember discussing it. I think that the idea was that
it has actually been superceeded by another module. However
if this isn't the case, I guess setting it to yes is a good idea.
Does anyone know what this might break?

-- 
Horms



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