Re: 2.1.107 + fb + s3virge = FAIL

Enrico Demarin (hjtbd@tin.it)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 23:43:10 +0200

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>
>Please use vgafb instead of vesafb. Vesafb is known to have problems with
>graphics boards that are not VBE 2.0 compliant.
>
>The motivation behind this is also having support for graphical consoles,
not
>forcing everyone to use a graphical console! Vesafb is mainly intended for
>machines with graphics boards that do not have a hardware text mode, or
that
>don't have an Open Source X server yet.
>
>...

I compiled framebuffer support with vgafb, the kernel boots, outputs some
messages
with black foreground and black background then hangs...
S3-Trio64v2dx here.

ciao
Enrico

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