Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:38:09 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Framebuffer question. |
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On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Mike wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > It is currently impossible to unload a framebuffer modules AFAIK. > > > > It's not impossible. If no VCs are mapped to a frame buffer device, you can > > unload it. Works fine with vga16fb on my CHRP box :-) > > > Once VCs are mapped to a frame buffer device, how do you map them back to > a non-frame buffer device?
By calling take_over_console() (drivers/char/console.c).
Greetings,
Geert
-- 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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