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SubjectRe: FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On 18 Dec 03 at 23:29, Armin wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 December 2003 00:35, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> > > I had similar the same Problem... i fixed it when i also put the
> >
> > i have compile kernel with vga fonts , Still are not working ...
>
> And did you enable framebuffer console support in Device Drivers ->
> Graphics Support -> Console display driver support -> Framebuffer Console
> Support ? It looks to me like that you did not enabled this, and so you
> get hardware in graphics mode (when fbdev loads), but no text there (as
> there is no fbcon in your kernel). 2.6.x kernel has strange idea
> that non-embedded users need fbdev without fbcon by default...
>
> I'm not aware about any problems with matroxfb driver in Linus kernel
> except that you should use 'video=matroxfb:nopan' to avoid problems
> with default resolution XXXx65536 (or clip vyres yourself to reasonable
> value). Of course all 2.6.x fbdev limits apply also to matroxfb driver.
> If you want interface compatible with 2.4.x, you'll have to get patch
> from ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matroxfb-2.6.0.gz
> (only vgacon, matroxfb and vesafb are tested).

I'm fielding a bug report from someone which is related to the EDID
changes here;

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458

Do you think they may be related?
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