Re: 2.1.107 & hosed fb on intel

Robert Hamilton (hamilton@iits-32.kdi.com)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 20:03:32 -0500


On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 05:04:59PM -0500, Horst von Brand wrote:
> James Michael Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> said:
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 03:09:45 PM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> > I'd say that this is enough to establish a pattern. Is anybody getting
> > black-on-black from vgafb who _isn't_ using a s3 or s3v?
>
> Me here. i586 UP, egcs-19980621, binutils-2.9.1.0.6. /proc/pci identifies
> it as Cirrus Logic GD 5446 (rev 0)

I'm getting black on black with vgafb using CL 5428.
Doesn't complete the boot either from the sound of it.

With vesafb, disk sounds like boot process completes, but
console is completely unresponsive and nothing happens on
the screen.

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