Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 o
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:14:45 +0100
Erik van Konijnenburg <ekonijn@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:42:13AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:08:24 +0000 "Richard Burton"
> > <richardaburton@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So, I have a workaround. Not sure how this should be fixed
> > > permanently though? Easiest way would seem to be to change the
> > > yaird Default.conf, but I don't know if that's the right way.
> >
> > Yaird upstream (Erik) is listening here as well - I'll let him
> > decide if fbcon should perhaps be loaded by default...
>
> The interesting bit is what to do about kernels that don't *have*
> an fbcon, modular or otherwise.
>
> Given that the loading is done from a configuration file, we can
> expect users of such kernels to drop the loading command from the
> config file, so I don't see objections to loading by default.
Why not add a "MODULE_GRACEFULLY" or similar that fails silently if
loading fails.
That's useful also for trying to load all NIC drivers (for a single
netboot image for a heterogenous network).
- Jonas
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