Re: disabling VESAFB no longer locks up VT (was Re: 2.4.10-r1 MTRRbug)

[Steve]

Daniel Drake wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Steve <s.egbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > For the Athlon 2100, I get the following outputs and then the VGA 
> > > console is frozen from further output (but it doesn't prevent the 
> > > full bootup into X windows session of which I am able to resume 
> > > normal Linux/X session, but not able to regain any virtual console 
> > > session.)
> >
> >
> >
> > hm.  Not sure what could have caused that.
>
>
> This may be a problem in Gentoo's kernels, we offer an experimental 
> version of vesafb... 

Disabling the VESAFB resulted in regaining control of the VTs (virtual 
terminals).
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