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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:51:03 +0800
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To: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc3-git8 -- Failed to execute /etc/init lang=us apm=power-off
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Miles Lane wrote:

> A possibly related problem I am attempting to track down is that
> nvidiafb is not correctly receiving it's video= option parameter. 
> Specifically, I am using:
> cat /proc/cmdline
> "init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off root=/dev/hda6
> video=nvidiafb:1024x768 ro nomce"
> But nvidiafb is only seeing:
> nvidiafb: mode_option = <NULL>
> 

Try this.  video=nvidiafb:off vga=0x0x305 video=vesafb:ypan

If you get the vesafb driver to run in ypan scrolling mode,
this problem may be specific to nvidiafb.

Tony

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