Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 o
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:57:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:57:54AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > > Vesafb is no more modular now, and should either have been dropped fully or
> > > builtin, please check the config file.
> >
> > As the driver is no longer modular it is now built into the kernel
> > on all i386 and amd64 architectures. It is not included
> > in any other achitecture, but I believe this was the case
> > when it was modular.
> >
> > # grep -r VESA debian/arch/ | grep -v .svn
> > debian/arch/i386/config:CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
> > debian/arch/amd64/config:CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
> >
> > The reason that it has been changed from modular to builtin,
> > is that making it modular was a somewhat problematic patch.
> > I hope we can find a solution that doesn't lead us back to
> > that code.
>
> Still, i don't think its modular vs builtin nature should change things,
> except if some stuff noz use vesafb, while vga16fb was used previously.
I wouldn't have thought so either, but the problems seem to
have appeared at about the same time that the change was
made (2.6.13), so I suspect a link.
--
Horms
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