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SubjectRe: Framebuffer question.
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

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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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