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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:10:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
Subject: Re: [FIX] Re: 2.5.66 new fbcon oops while loading X
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> Previously bert hubert wrote:
> > On Debian, ls /dev/fb[67] results in:
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 192 Nov 30  2000 /dev/fb6
> > crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 224 Nov 30  2000 /dev/fb7
> 
> Documentation/devices.txt (at least in 2.5.64) states that those
> devices should be fully supported:
> 
>                 For backwards compatibility {2.6} the following
>                 progression is also handled by current kernels:
>                   0 = /dev/fb0
>                  32 = /dev/fb1
>                     ...
>                 224 = /dev/fb7

That is no longer true. The fb nodes should be recreated. I fixed the docs 
in devices.txt



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