From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com>
Cc: adaplas@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VESA fb console in 2.6.15
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:22:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051122162226.41305851.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oe4c7gbv.fsf@brouette.noos.fr>
Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I've noticed in several versions of 2.6.15 that VESA fb console
> > > seems completely broken : it draws screen in several very slow
> > > steps, making the whole display almos unusable. And it crashes
> > > *very* often, for example when switching to X. The computer is
> > > complety locked, and doesn't even respond to SysRQ.
>
> > > I use vga=0x31B as boot param.
>
> * "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> [051122 01:28]:
>
> > 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..)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-23 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-21 21:55 Damien Wyart
2005-11-22 0:28 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-11-22 17:17 ` Damien Wyart
2005-11-23 0:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-11-23 0:32 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-11-23 7:36 ` Damien Wyart
2005-11-23 19:38 ` Bill Davidsen
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