Re: disabling all video

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:15:48 -0500 Davy Durham wrote:

| Perhaps is there a way/trick to accomplish this by explicitly breaking 
| (*at* runtime/kernel-parameter-time) the vga support that wouldn't cause 
| a panic?

Perhaps there could be a way (most likely there could be), but there
isn't a way currently that I can find in source files or in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt .


| Yapo Sebastien wrote:
| 
| >>Question: I would like the kernel not to use any of the video hardware
| >>on the machine.  Is there any run-time kernel parameter I can pass to
| >>disable all video?  (I tried console= to direct output to the serial
| >>port, but ttys were still using the vga hardware.)  My video card is
| >>built onto the mother board, and there is no way I see to disable it
| >>from the BIOS.
| >>
| >>    
| >>
| >Remove "if EMBEDDED" in the VT and VT_CONSOLE section of drivers/char/Kconfig 
| >then reconfigure your kernel.
| >You should find the old VT options in Device Drivers  -> Character devices
| >
| >Regards
| >
| >Sebastien


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~Randy