[Intel-gfx] mac mini busted in the 2.9.0 release?

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Oct 14 01:17:20 CEST 2009


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:01:38PM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Excerpts from Greg KH's message of Tue Oct 13 18:33:48 -0400 2009:
> > Ah, it was enabled, but not by default.  Now it is, and it works
> > properly!
> > 
> > But I lost my console, so booting is "blind" until x starts up.  And as
> > someone who breaks his kernel a lot, I need to see the console at boot
> > time.
> > 
> > Heck, I can't even switch to a console anymore, I do that, and the
> > screen goes inverted with my x display, but comes back when I switch
> > back.  Is that a known bug?
> 
> I hope this isn't insultingly obvious, but is fbcon being loaded?

The Linux kernel module?  I have:
	CONFIG_FB=y
so it shoudl be built into the kernel directly.  Yup, it's there:
	drivers/video/console/fbcon.o

thanks,

greg k-h



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