Re: uvesafb with linux-image-2.6.26-1-686

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2008-08-15 14:13 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >
> > > I am going to play with the latest 2.6.26 kernel and change those
> > > uvesafb 'm's to 'y's I think. Although the object was to have a Debian
> > > kernel with framebuffers just from installs.
> >
> > Note that this may be problematic, see bug #493185[1] for details.
> >
> > Sven
> >
> > 1. http://bugs.debian.org/493185
>
> At Dave's suggestion I wrote to Evgeni Golov, the v86d maintainer, who 
> is super responsive. Last try he had me rebuild the v86d package w/o a 
> patch he had put in it.

Then he had me try rebuilding v86d with the rules entry changed to 
./configure --with-x86emu and still the patch removed.

No entry in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules for uvesafb

And then load uvesafb from /etc/modules with:

uvesafb mode=1024x768-32

And that works!

So now I can run linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 and have framebuffers again, 
except I have as of yet to rebuild v86d.

Hugo