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

ykzhao yakui.zhao at intel.com
Wed Oct 14 05:00:19 CEST 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 07:17 +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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
Will you please enable "CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE" in kernel
configuration and see whether the issue still exists?
   >CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

thanks.
   Yakui
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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