Bug 40117

Summary:	cannot disable framebuffer in 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 kernel
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Florian Effenberger <floeff>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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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?