intel and uvesafb

[Ben E. Hard]

Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008 schrieb Raúl Sánchez Siles:
> Johannes Engel wrote:
> > Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
> >>   AFAIK, the xorg intel driver doesn't support any vesa(fb) graphics
> >> mode on
> >> text consoles. I think this is because, those (Linux)kernel plays with
> >> video card registers in a way that xorg driver can't control.
> >
> > Hm, that does not seem to be my point: I get framebuffer text console
> > using the old vesa driver. That even works in parallel with the intel
> > xorg driver. So maybe we are discussing different things.
> >
> > Greetings, Johannes
>
>   Well, not supported doesn't mean doesn't work at all, but that it may
> break at any point. I had framebuffer working quite well till several weeks
> git driver versions. But since I'm on 965GM, it's possible that the
> behaviour on your card is different.
>
>  Having said this, maybe this is not the problem, but in order to discard
> this problem could you try running text console with native text modes (not
> framebuffer modes)?

A normal text console without any frambuffer works well for me - only the text 
console covers only a quarter of the available screen. As for Johannes, I can 
also use without problem the vesa framebuffer, that allows me with vga=0x305 
to use the full screen. 

Cheers,
Ben