Re: intelfb on 82852/855GM and cursor problem

    Hi Stanislav,

Stanislav Semakin a écrit:

>Hello,
>
>For those who are on the:
>
> intelfb: Non-CRT device is enabled ( LVDS port ).  Disabling mode switching.
> intelfb: Video mode must be programmed at boot time.
>
>stage read this: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/intelfb.html
>and svga.txt in the kernel source documentation. I managed to start
>video mode needed, but with tricks: I had to define this
>
>#define CONFIG_FB_VESA_STD
>
    I think you don't have to set it by hand but enable in menuconfig 
Device Driver / Graphics Support / Console Display driver support / 
Video mode selection support.

>
>in the beginning of the arch/i386/boot/video.S file. Without it I couldn't
>start video mode via "vga=" or etc. though I played a lot with all
>that stuff described in svga.txt, the definition I used is not mentioned
>in svga.txt. What was wrong?
>
>Ok, now I have it running but my dmesg is full of
>
>the cursor was killed - restore it !!
>
>and there is no cursor in console (without X started). I tried turning off hardware
>cursor support, didn't help, could you suggest what to do next?
>
    It's caused by X which silently change the hw cursor (and don't 
reinit it) . If you turn off hw cursor the message will go off. And yes 
there a cursor in console, the blinking underscore at the bottom of your 
window :-)

>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Regards,
>Stas
>
Regards
Sylvain





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