on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:22:50PM +0200%, Tom Alsberg said:
tom> Controlling the VESA display requires real mode interrupt
tom> calls, which are unavailable after the kernel has been
tom> loaded. Therefore, the VESA framebuffer support can't be used
tom> as a module, and must be compiled in the kernel to be used.
hmmmmm... ok, so where do i find another debian-packaged kernel that
has framebuffer support compiled in? i did try compiling my own
2.4.2, but make-kpkg barfed on the modules, and, well, apt-get
installing kernels is just so much more convenient. :)
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