Re: why is vesafb not a module?

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:17:02 +0100 (MET)


On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, wrote:

> I would like to decide at run time which frame buffer to run, depending
> on of course the hardware in the box. Compiling one kernel with the
> vesa frame buffer in (for video cards without a specific frame buffer
> driver) and then one without (to run a specific frame buffer) to satisfy
> this kinda sucks. :-)

"video=vesa:off" on the kernel command line will turn off vesafb.

> As a side note, anyone know of a source for the frame buffer version of
> the Xserver?

Source: xfree86 3.3.3
Binary: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/fb.html

Gerd

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