If you areusing lilo the remove the line
vga=788 (NOTE: this number might be different)
or replace it by vga=normal (IIRC)
the other option is to add the vga=normal on the boot param
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 21:56, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>
> I use the same kernel everywhere but when vesa framebuffer is compiled
> into the kernel the text mode console on my laptop doesn't show the
> bottom few lines of the screen.
>
> So I wanted to turn it off at boot .. but there didn't seem to be a way
> :-(. Hence I added the boot param
>
> video=vesa:off
>
> Apologies if it was possible some other way. I believe I've heard
> of some distros providing FB and NONFB kernels. I didn't stop to
> investigate beyond reading the Documentation/fb/*.txt.
>
> This patch is against the pre-2.4.18 kernel code I had handy.
> Sorry if it needs to be more recent. I don't have another 120M
> to spare for a newer source just now ...
>
> It works.
>
>
> --- vesafb.c.orig Sat Jul 27 21:42:39 2002
> +++ vesafb.c Sat Jul 27 21:10:39 2002
> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
>
> static int pmi_setpal = 0; /* pmi for palette changes ??? */
> static int ypan = 0; /* 0..nothing, 1..ypan, 2..ywrap */
> +static int disable = 0; /* added by P. Breuer ptb@it.uc3m.es */
> static unsigned short *pmi_base = 0;
> static void (*pmi_start)(void);
> static void (*pmi_pal)(void);
> @@ -462,6 +463,8 @@
>
> if (! strcmp(this_opt, "inverse"))
> inverse=1;
> + else if (! strcmp(this_opt, "off"))
> + disable=1;
> else if (! strcmp(this_opt, "redraw"))
> ypan=0;
> else if (! strcmp(this_opt, "ypan"))
> @@ -504,6 +507,12 @@
> int __init vesafb_init(void)
> {
> int i,j;
> +
> + if (disable) {
> + printk(KERN_INFO
> + "vesafb: aborted on user req (disable)\n");
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
>
> if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB)
> return -ENXIO;
> -
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