Re: CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT stole my will to live

[James Simmons]

> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:14:50AM +1000, Brett wrote:
> 
>  > since 2.5.67-bk5. I have been unable to boot my laptop
>  > tonight, I finally traced it back to
>  > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1006
> 
> good work.
> 
>  > the video card is a chips and tech 65545
>  > i'd just like to know where to go from here, so that I can return to 
>  > booting with CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT set 
> 
> Possibly the card's VGA BIOS has 'issues' with that call.

This is most likely the case. I just tested out the configuration he has 
and it worked for me. I'm running vga=5 right now. For teh majority it 
works but as usual there are some broken BIOS that cause issues. 

> Wasn't the EDID stuff getting backed out anyways ?

Only in the VESA driver. Some people did have luck with the BIOS EDID info 
so I like to keep the BIOS call in there.