[Gllug] SVGA console

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Tue Jun 25 15:38:00 UTC 2002


On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:20:54PM +0100, jim wrote:
> Idiot question alert: just got Slackware 8.1, installed like a dream,
> except that as soon as I compile a custom kernel the hi-res SVGA console
> stops to work. The standard bare.i kernel supports it fine. I've checked
> the "console" configuration against the config for the precompiled one and
> all seems fine. What am I missing here? I don't really want to do a binary
> search on the kernel options.

Sounds like you need to compile in framebuffer support....

Cheers,

Simon

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