[Splashy-devel] Bug#459457: Bug#459457: splashy: should not start if requirements aren't satistfied

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:56:19 +0100
Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:

> - when no vga= or video= command line is provided, AFAIK even if fbcon
>   and vesafb are inserted (on Debian kernel they're compiled in by
>   default), /proc/fb is present, but with zero size.  Thus, when
>   checking for /proc/fb to create /dev nodes we should check for its
>   size (test -s).  However, according to [6] and [7], if no vga= or
>   video= parameter is specified, fb is not initialised ([2] and [4]).


I'm using a system without vesafb, but with the ati vesa driver, which
name I'm to lazy to look up now:) But anyway, I don't need a vga=
parameter on /proc/cmdline. IIRC I wrote the initramfs scripts to test
for some specific contents in /dev/fb, not just its size.

Well, I'm not really overseeing the situation, but I think mandating
vga= is not the proper way to go.

grts Tim
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