Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263163AbTETQms (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 12:42:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263295AbTETQms (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 12:42:48 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:38669 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263163AbTETQmq (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 12:42:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:55:41 +0100 (BST) From: James Simmons To: Dave Jones cc: Brett , , Subject: Re: CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT stole my will to live In-Reply-To: <20030520155138.GA29450@suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1097 Lines: 29 > 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/