Re: Kernel videocard support YES or NO?

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:21:55 +0200


Hi!

> > > * There is already fbcon for other (non-PC) architectures.
> >
> > don't know very less about `other architectures' except a bit
> > on DEC AXP. and here X11 works fine right now and AFAIK
> > fbcon is no real problem running XFree86 (is it? don't know
> > too much here...)
>
> On machines with VGA text mode, `fbcon' uses `vgacon'[*], a VGA text (80x25)
> mode driver on top of the abstract console driver. Since the user space
> abstraction doesn't change, X keeps on working like it did before.

Ok, question: Is there way to enable fbcon on i386 architecture? Its
config in is not including and I'm feeling assumption that I should
not do that...

Pavel

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