Re: Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] Framebuffer split

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/8/1 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Michal Suchanek<address@hidden> wrote:
>> 2009/8/1 Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
>> I guess the current initialization is somewhat fishy. I haven't looked
>> at the code so far but the way it works is odd. When I change output
>> to gfxterm it apparently tries to initialize the vbe graphics but it
>> fails to find any videomode unless I run vbetest before starting
>> gfxterm.
>>
>> The situation is the same both pre- and post- split.
>
> insmod vbe
>
> Autoload right driver would be nice. Perhaps having a list of pairs
> (PCI vendor; driver) ?

The PCI id list for vbe would be quite long ;-)

However, vbe and vga (if/when implemented) could be used as fallback.

Thanks

Michal