Re: Framebuffer/console modules?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:14:55 -0400


Camm Maguire wrote:
>
> Greetings! I've just discovered the impressive framebuffer/console
> support in the stock 2.2 kernels, and had one question. One can
> compile these as modules, but it seems that the code is unusable as
> modules. Only by appending a vga= command line to the kernel at boot
> time (e.g. via lilo) can one enable different console modes as well as
> framebuffer support for X, AFAIK. Am I missing something?

...or use fbset

Jeff

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