Re: vesa_blank in new fbcon

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:17:37 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> I am looking around for the right way to get VESA blanking of my
> monitor to work with my TGA card (DEC 21030 ZLXp-E2). It looks like the
> functionality for this has been moved into vgacon.c and that all I should
> need to do is compile in VGA console support along with TGA framebuffer
> support. Will this work? Also, in looking through vgacon.c I see some

This won't work. The TGA is not compatible with VGA. Someone (you?) has to add
VESA blanking support to drivers/video/tgafb.c (tgafbcon_blank()) instead.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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