9 Mar
2008
9 Mar
'08
11:06 a.m.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:05:04AM +0100, Michal Soltys wrote:
Btw - is there any reason why fbcon is built into kernel, instead of being left as a module (also, fbcon never loads automatically) ? Consoles are not taken until fbcon is activated - so maybe it would solve the issue with binary blobs having problems with active framebuffer driver. Just a thought (although as per fbcon documentation, depending on how well the framebuffer driver is written, consoles might end with garbaged screen w/o fbcon ; they shouldn't though).
I needed to have fbcon built in for uvesafb to work. But when put in the initrd, it worked too. So maybe this could simply be done by the v86d hook. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=337963#p337963