From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VESA fb console in 2.6.15
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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:17:08 +0100
In-Reply-To: <43826648.9030606@gmail.com> (Antonino A. Daplas's message of
	"Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:28:56 +0800")
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> > I've noticed in several versions of 2.6.15 that VESA fb console
> > seems completely broken : it draws screen in several very slow
> > steps, making the whole display almos unusable. And it crashes
> > *very* often, for example when switching to X. The computer is
> > complety locked, and doesn't even respond to SysRQ.

> > I use vga=0x31B as boot param.

* "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> [051122 01:28]:

> Try booting with:
> vga=0x31b video=vesafb:mtrr:3

Thanks, this works fine with this param and also without any video=
param. I had a default video=vesafb:mtrr:2 in my grub conf file because
of mtrr problems a few kernel versions earlier (had been discussed
extensively on this list). This setting doesn't work well in 2.6.15.

-- 
Damien
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