[Debian-ppc64-devel] Disabling frame buffer

[Cajus Pollmeier]

Am Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2005 13:37 schrieb Roberto Suarez Soto:
> 	I'm still having problems with the display. The beast we have here
> seems designed for heavy CAD use (has a Matrox G450 card), but I can't even
> make it display text mode correctly :-/ fbset works, in the sense that it
> can change resolutions, but the characters are still all messed up.
>
> 	I wonder: would it be possible to use "normal" (i.e., non-fb) display,
> or to deactivate matroxfb via some "video=..." option at boot? IIRC, there
> is no such thing as "pure text mode" in the pSeries and many ppc computers,
> but maybe there is some "safe" mode that I can try :-?
>
> 	The worst thing is that I clearly remember have done something that
> displayed two penguins in screen correctly, but I for the life of me cannot
> remember what it was. Maybe Cajus' installer? :-m Cajus, does your
> installer have some "safe" video mode, or the like? Does it simply use a
> general VESA fb mode?

You need matrox fb support compiled in your kernel.

Cheers,
Cajus