The patch titled fbdev: does not allow VESA modes without compiled-in drivers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fbdev-does-not-allow-vesa-modes-without-compiled-in-drivers.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fbdev: does not allow VESA modes without compiled-in drivers From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxx> Does not allow to accept VESA modes by the "vga=" kernel parameter if there is no frame buffer driver compiled-in to handle it. Also, there is a comment added to the Kconfig description after Werner Lemberg's suggestion Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13249 Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxx> Reported-by: Werner Lemberg <wl@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/Kconfig | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/Kconfig~fbdev-does-not-allow-vesa-modes-without-compiled-in-drivers drivers/video/Kconfig --- a/drivers/video/Kconfig~fbdev-does-not-allow-vesa-modes-without-compiled-in-drivers +++ a/drivers/video/Kconfig @@ -1122,12 +1122,14 @@ config FB_INTEL select FB_CFB_FILLRECT select FB_CFB_COPYAREA select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT - select FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT + select FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT if FB_INTEL = y help This driver supports the on-board graphics built in to the Intel 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/915GM/945G/945GM/965G/965GM chipsets. Say Y if you have and plan to use such a board. + To make FB_INTELFB=Y work you need to say AGP_INTEL=y too. + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called intelfb. @@ -1460,7 +1462,7 @@ config FB_SIS select FB_CFB_FILLRECT select FB_CFB_COPYAREA select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT - select FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT + select FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT if FB_SIS = y help This is the frame buffer device driver for the SiS 300, 315, 330 and 340 series as well as XGI V3XT, V5, V8, Z7 graphics chipsets. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from krzysztof.h1@xxxxx are origin.patch fbdev-does-not-allow-vesa-modes-without-compiled-in-drivers.patch intelfb-fix-setting-of-active-pipe-with-lvds-displays.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html