Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] ATI Rage Mobility external monitor problem.

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Stelian Pop wrote:
> I have a Vaio Picturebook C1VE running Linux, and I have a
> problem when using an external monitor with the CVS version
> of XFree86.

    [...]

> It is clear that the framebuffer code has a bug which causes the
> blur. But it isn't clear for me why XFree is not able to 
> reinitialize the hardware correctly after the framebuffer code has
> touched it.

XFree86 expects a chip configured to VGA text mode, unless you specify an
`fbdev' option (IIRC).

> A somewhat related question for linux framebuffer guys: is it
> possible to disable the framebuffer on boot (without having to
> compile two kernels, a framebuffer based one and one without) 
> with some parameter ? I tried leaving out the vga=0x301 
> parameter, or put a vga= something else (80x25 text mode) etc,
> but the framebuffer code seems to initialize itself whatever
> option I put on the kernel boot line.

video=atyfb:off

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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