On Tuesday 2010-12-14 21:18, Dave Airlie wrote: >On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >>booting with video=off nor video=i915:off has any effect on skipping >>FB. What is the correct option to stop FB from taking over my boot >>consoles? > >For KMS its not fb taking over its the drm i915 driver, nomodeset will >stop it however X will no longer work since it relies on the kernel >driver. That would make sense. Furthermore I discovered that video=vesafb:off also has no effect, but here it is clear because the source code ignores the return value of fb_get_options, and so ignores any off command. The real strange thing is that video=offb:off on an Apple Xserve G5 PPC64, while probably skipping OFFB initialization, still ends up in a 640x480 mode with a 8x16 font instead of retaining the PROM console/font. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
