Re: disabling all video

From: Davy Durham
Date: Sat Aug 07 2004 - 14:18:05 EST


Perhaps is there a way/trick to accomplish this by explicitly breaking (*at* runtime/kernel-parameter-time) the vga support that wouldn't cause a panic?

Yapo Sebastien wrote:

Question: I would like the kernel not to use any of the video hardware
on the machine. Is there any run-time kernel parameter I can pass to
disable all video? (I tried console= to direct output to the serial
port, but ttys were still using the vga hardware.) My video card is
built onto the mother board, and there is no way I see to disable it
from the BIOS.



Remove "if EMBEDDED" in the VT and VT_CONSOLE section of drivers/char/Kconfig then reconfigure your kernel.
You should find the old VT options in Device Drivers -> Character devices

Regards

Sebastien
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