Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0

[James Simmons]

> I've found that using "rivafb" does not work with my Geforce3, and from
> talking to various people on IRC about it I get the impression that rivafb
> is broken for any card newer than Geforce2. "vesafb" though works quite
> well with never NVidia cards.

The core code to the rivafb is lifted from a older X windows driver. I 
would need to grab the latest X server code which is very different.
 
> If I build my kernels with "rivafb" enabled I get a blank screen as well,
> but using "vesafb" all is fine (so is just plain vga=normal or
> vga=extended, but I prefer the fb console :)

Fixed in my latest patches.


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