Re: VESA fb console in 2.6.15

[Damien Wyart]

> > > > Try booting with: vga=0x31b video=vesafb:mtrr:3

> > > Thanks, this works fine with this param and also without any
> > > video= param. I had a default video=vesafb:mtrr:2 in my grub conf
> > > file because of mtrr problems a few kernel versions earlier (had
> > > been discussed extensively on this list). This setting doesn't
> > > work well in 2.6.15.

> > Does 2.6.15-rc? work OK without any special boot options? (We want it to..)

* Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> [2005-11-23 08:32]:
> From what I understand, before this, he needs video=vesafb:mtrr:2.
> (Because his machine defaults to write-back mtrr instead of
> write-combining). Now it works without any special boot options
> because I made vesafb default to nomtrr because of problems like this
> and conflicts with X/DRI.

Exactly, I confirm that boot is ok without any special boot option.

-- 
Damien
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