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Bug 40117 - cannot disable framebuffer in 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 kernel
Summary: cannot disable framebuffer in 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 kernel
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: x86-kernel@gentoo.org (DEPRECATED)
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Reported: 2004-02-01 12:49 UTC by Florian Effenberger
Modified: 2004-02-01 22:33 UTC (History)
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Description Florian Effenberger 2004-02-01 12:49:00 UTC 
I cannot disable the framebuffer in the 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 kernel. I want a simple and plain text console, but this seems to be impossible without recompiling the kernel?

Kernel has been compiled with "genkernel all" and the framebuffer is entered as soon as I see "Scanning for USB and PCI devices" (hotplug)

Reproducible: Always
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Actual Results:  
Console has frame buffer support

Expected Results:  
I want a simple, 80x25 text mode.
Comment 1 Brad House 2004-02-01 16:58:47 UTC 
you really don't have much choice other than using
--menuconfig to manually disable it.  Using hotplug
will auto-load the module for the framebuffer if they
exist.  Not much we can do about that there.
Comment 2 Florian Effenberger 2004-02-01 22:33:44 UTC 
Hm, now way of adding a kernel parameter to disable it?
Is the framebuffer in the vanilla kernel provided by Gentoo as well?