Re: Screen litter
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stuart Lamble wrote:
> In debian.powerpc, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >If you have enabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in the kernel config, disable it.
> >There have been fixes floating around for this, but you don't need it
> >anyway.
>
> Hmm. Last time I disabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, it resulted in me getting
> a display consisting solely of bullet marks, instead of standard text.
> (2.4.9-benh, IIRC. One of these days, I'll get around to upgrading to
> something more recent, and see what comes out as a result.)
Linus accepted the fix in 2.4.13-pre3.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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