Re: disabling all video

[Davy Durham]

Yapo Sebastien wrote:

> > Question: I would like the kernel not to use any of the video hardware
> > on the machine.  Is there any run-time kernel parameter I can pass to
> > disable all video?  (I tried console= to direct output to the serial
> > port, but ttys were still using the vga hardware.)  My video card is
> > built onto the mother board, and there is no way I see to disable it
> > from the BIOS.
> >
> >    
> Remove "if EMBEDDED" in the VT and VT_CONSOLE section of drivers/char/Kconfig 
> then reconfigure your kernel.
> You should find the old VT options in Device Drivers  -> Character devices
>
>  
Aww, is there no way to disable it at run-time?  I'm working with a 
precompiled kernel.

Perhaps there's a trick to disable the card with a special interrupt?  
Set the terminal parameters to blanked from the kernel parameter line 
(like setterm does)

Thanks
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