Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 17:55:41 +0100 (BST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT stole my will to live |
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> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:14:50AM +1000, Brett wrote: > > > since 2.5.67-bk5. I have been unable to boot my laptop > > tonight, I finally traced it back to > > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1006 > > good work. > > > the video card is a chips and tech 65545 > > i'd just like to know where to go from here, so that I can return to > > booting with CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT set > > Possibly the card's VGA BIOS has 'issues' with that call.
This is most likely the case. I just tested out the configuration he has and it worked for me. I'm running vga=5 right now. For teh majority it works but as usual there are some broken BIOS that cause issues.
> Wasn't the EDID stuff getting backed out anyways ?
Only in the VESA driver. Some people did have luck with the BIOS EDID info so I like to keep the BIOS call in there.
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