Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0

[Dan Egli <dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net>]

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James Simmons wrote:
|>|>The decision to release 2.6.0 with the same broken vga= option that was
|>|>reported many times in 2.6.0-test* makes me think that vga= is not
|>intended
|>|>to work.
|>|
|>|
|>| Maybe it has something to do with RedHat 7.3.  I've used RH8, RH9, and
|>| Fedora Core 1 and haven't had a problem with vga= in any of them during
|>| the 2.5/2.6 series, right up through the current one.  I've got
|>| framebuffer support as a module.
|>|
|>
|>
|>Not RedHat 9 issue because I'm using RH 9 and I am the one that started
|>this thread.
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| Its a bug in the kernel. Fixed in latest tree.
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| http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
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Cool. When the 2.6.1 comes out (I'm assuming that this means it will be
in 2.6.1), I'll d/l it and try it out.

- --- Dan
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