From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964776AbWAZQk0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:40:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964802AbWAZQk0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:40:26 -0500 Received: from smtp.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.7]:58890 "EHLO mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964776AbWAZQkZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:40:25 -0500 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Hai Zaar Subject: Re: vesa fb is slow on 2.6.15.1 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:40:19 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43D8E1EE.3040302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601261640.19570.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:06, Hai Zaar wrote: > On 1/26/06, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > mtrr now defaults to off in vesafb because of conflicts with xorg/ > > xfree86. You have to explicitly enable it with a boot option. Try > > this: > > > > video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ypan > > > > Tony > > I've replaced 'vga=795' with 'video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ypan' and rebooted. > Now framebuffer is not activated at all - I get plain old 80x25 > console. Are you sure that old vesafb (not vesafb-tng) driver > understands 'video=...' parameters style? Do not replace vga= and it will work fine. See Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.