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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:26:55 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
CC: Robert Moss <robert.von.moss@gmail.com>,
       Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
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Subject: Re: Framebuffer issues in 2.6.26 with uvesafb and vesafb. Linux is
 about choice!
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Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Thursday 23 October 2008 12:21:09 Robert Moss wrote:
>> I also want to note, that I downloaded 2.6.27.3 and compiled, with
>> CONFIG_FB_VESA=Y, and still get excactly the same response as from
>> 2.6.26
> 
> Useful info, and I checked your configs and they enable the right options. 
> Looks like you've found a real bug.
> 
> IIRC, a lot of real mode assembler (including the x86 vga/vesa stuff, iirc) 
> was rewritten a year or so ago, in C. This might have been the time that this 
> bug was introduced. I've added hpa to CC since I believe he was the author of 
> these changes.
> 
> (Summary of the original report is that vga= vesa mode selection seems to have 
> broken for Robert since at least 2.6.26, and after 2.6.24. From what I can see 
> he has the right vesafb options enabled.)
> 

That happend in 2.6.23 I believe, so that would be unrelated.

The best would be to bisect the regression.  The second best would be if 
he could run the "vesainfo" program from the Syslinux distribution (it's 
a pre-boot program that dumps information on the VESA stack).  The third 
best would be to set up Xorg to run the "vesa" driver, and send 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.

	-hpa

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