intel and uvesafb

Johannes Engel j-engel at gmx.de
Wed Feb 6 00:46:32 PST 2008


Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
>   AFAIK, the xorg intel driver doesn't support any vesa(fb) graphics mode on
> text consoles. I think this is because, those (Linux)kernel plays with
> video card registers in a way that xorg driver can't control.
>   
Hm, that does not seem to be my point: I get framebuffer text console
using the old vesa driver. That even works in parallel with the intel
xorg driver. So maybe we are discussing different things.

Greetings, Johannes



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