From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263943AbUHHVug (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:50:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265038AbUHHVug (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:50:36 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:46728 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263943AbUHHVud (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:50:33 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 14:41:18 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Davy Durham Cc: sebastien.yapo@e-neyret.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: disabling all video Message-Id: <20040808144118.01446910.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <41152A64.6060405@networkstreaming.com> References: <4113E0FE.1040506@networkstreaming.com> <200408070008.42519.sebastien.yapo@e-neyret.com> <41152A64.6060405@networkstreaming.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 -- ~Randy