Re: matroxfb and 2.6.0-test2

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 12:02:09 EST


> > After it the screen became corrupted with a dump of my last
> > shutdown. All commands still worked. I don't use fbset at all.
> > The logs don't have anything about matroxfb.
>
> Try building matroxfb into the kernel. I believe that current VT system
> does not take over console anymore if fbdev is loaded after fbcon, but
> I never tested it myself.

Correct. You need run con2fb if you load a fbdev driver after fbcon.c.
This maps the framebuffer to the console.

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