Re: vesa fb is slow on 2.6.15.1

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:06, Hai Zaar wrote:
> On 1/26/06, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > mtrr now defaults to off in vesafb because of conflicts with xorg/
> > xfree86.  You have to explicitly enable it with a boot option.  Try
> > this:
> >
> > video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ypan
> >
> > Tony
>
> I've replaced 'vga=795' with 'video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ypan' and rebooted.
> Now framebuffer is not activated at all - I get plain old 80x25
> console. Are you sure that old vesafb (not vesafb-tng) driver
> understands 'video=...' parameters style?

Do not replace vga= and it will work fine. See Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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