Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:41:37 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0 |
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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
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