Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC

[Joseph Fannin]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:04:09AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> How about this patch?  This brings back the old way of setting up the
> drivers, supports:
> 
> video=xxxfb:off
> video=ofonly
> 
> Your patch that brings offb to the very last of the Makefile is needed.

    Applying these two patches to 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 makes the framebuffer
console on my Powermac work again.  This box has an ATI RAGE chip on
the motherboard I don't often use, so being able to do video=atyfb:off
lets me keep the driver around -- thanks!

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Joseph Fannin
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