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Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes: |
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> I'm ashamed to admit I made the most basic mistake. I compiled uvesafb |
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> as a module. Oops! Compiled it as "Y" instead of "M" and now I have a |
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> pair of Tux sitting atop my kernel boot screen and no more 80x25 |
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> horror. :) |
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Is there some difference in uvesafb and vesafb? I've always just ignored |
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the uvesafb choice and used plain vesafb. |
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I just assumed from the name of it and the menuconfig help on it that |
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it was something only usable in `userspace'. I took that to mean |
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after bootup.. something you'd do from the command line. |
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Anyone here that can explain what the difference is. |
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