Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

[Antonino A. Daplas]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 23:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA
> > modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system
> > which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS.
> > 
> > Antonio is incorrectly assuming this branchout is used only to set VESA
> > graphics modes, but it's to set any VESA mode, be it text or graphics.
> 
> I wonder if this fbdev update is what causes my X session to die?

That's doubtful though, CONFIG_FB=n. For a start, you can try reverting
changes in drivers/char/vt.c and drivers/video/console/vgacon.c

Tony


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