Re: 2.1.107 frame buffer _badly_ broken

Daniel Egger (Daniel.Egger@t-online.de)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:25:09 +0200


On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>Does it work with frame buffer support and vgafb instead of vesafb? Vgafb is a
>text-only frame buffer device and should work. Technically it's the same code
>as vgacon and the old VGA driver. It's main advantage over vgacon is that it's
>a frame buffer device, and that it's much faster.

No, that won't work either, at least here.... But there is a difference:
Usign vesafb the machine hangs completely without doing anything...
Using vgafb the machine puzzles around with some chars and clears the
screen and to be more good I can reset it then softly :))

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Servus, Daniel

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