[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: vesafb in kernel 2.4.18? (fwd)

[William S. <ch...@dm...>]

I'm feeling a bit foolish today, after a week and a half of stupidity.

I was so close to the problem that I was no longer able to look at it with 
objectivity.  My buddy noticed my problem as soon as he looked at my 
lilo.conf.

I was passing the vga=791 argument as a lilo append= option, which was WRONG, 
and just my stupidity... sorry for the noise...

vesafb is just fine!  So kudos to the developers!  Thanks to the vesafb, my 
project gets a nice X interface without having to know the details of 
everyone's video hardware... I like it!

http://biatchux.sourceforge.net

thanks,

William Salusky
ch...@dm...


Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@li...> said:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 20:19:50 -0000
> From: William Salusky <ch...@dm...>
> Subject: vesafb in kernel 2.4.18?
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Is anyone among the group actively using vesafb in their kernels?
> If so what is the latest kernel version that you have built vesafb support 
> into?
> 
> I am starting to believe that proper vesafb support has been accidentally 
> dropped in the 2.4x kernel somewhere after 2.4.5 as that is the last kernel 
> that I can have had it working under.  I'm trying to build vesafb under 
> 2.4.18 in support of an X implementation for the biatchux bootable cd, 
> http://biatchux.sourceforge.net
> 
> I'm begging for help at this point...  I've downgraded as far as 2.4.14 and 
> still can't find proper vesafb support.  I do not want to go all the way 
back 
> to 2.4.5 as I would lose many features that were made available with the 
> latest stable.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -- 
> William Salusky
> ch...@dm...
> cell: 925-250-6092
> 
> 
> 



-- 
William Salusky
ch...@dm...
cell: 925-250-6092