Re: PATCH: vgafb is evil - use vgacon instead
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 02:01:16 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> vgafb is evil and when its compiled in, video modes with 50 or more
> lines doesn't work (but 80x43 does).
>
> This has led to lots on confusion for various people (including
> myself) as to why 80x50 doesn't work, when 80x43 does, why GPM
> doesn't work with scroll-back properly, etc. and much noise on the
> list.
>
> Anyhow, vgacon works and vgafb should be depreciated and removed
> before the freeze otherwise there will be thousands of questions to
> this list ask "why vga=ext doesn't work?"
>
> This isn't the `right fix' obviously, but it keeps the patch sizes
> down.
This is fine for me. Now vgacon is full-featured again, there are no reasons
left to keep on using vgafb.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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