Re: [FIX] Re: 2.5.66 new fbcon oops while loading X

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 15:10:46 EST


> Previously bert hubert wrote:
> > On Debian, ls /dev/fb[67] results in:
> > crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 192 Nov 30 2000 /dev/fb6
> > crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 224 Nov 30 2000 /dev/fb7
>
> Documentation/devices.txt (at least in 2.5.64) states that those
> devices should be fully supported:
>
> For backwards compatibility {2.6} the following
> progression is also handled by current kernels:
> 0 = /dev/fb0
> 32 = /dev/fb1
> ...
> 224 = /dev/fb7

That is no longer true. The fb nodes should be recreated. I fixed the docs
in devices.txt

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