[Debian-ppc64-devel] Disabling frame buffer

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:37:07PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On Jun/02, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> 
> > You need matrox fb support compiled in your kernel.
> 
> 	Well, indeed, and besides at last I found the reason of the corruption
> :-) It was the acceleration of text mode (?) of the Matrox card. Deactivating
> it with fbset ("fbset -accel false") fixed everything. I'm yet to know how to
> do it directly at boot, but for now I've put it in a init script to be loaded
> at startup.

Ah, boot with : video=matroxfb:noaccel, i think.

> 	And besides, I realized that I had commented out the ttys for some
> obscure reason, and that's why it wasn't displaying anything besides the
> penguins. Another mystery resolved :-)

Hehe,

Friendly,

Sven Luther