[Debian-ppc64-devel] Disabling frame buffer

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:11:27PM +0200, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> 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.

Should be :

CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y

Friendly,

Sven Luther