SOURCES (LINUX_2_6): kernel-x86_64.config, kernel-i386.config - di...

[Marek Guevara Braun]

pluto pisze:
> - disable old vesafb(2.0, x86 only), please use new generic uvesafb(2.0/3.0) driver.

Do we need any geninitrd or udev/dev support for this ?

I have tried
modprobe -v uvesafb v86d=/usr/sbin/v86d mode=1280x1024-32 at 60
from the command line, but with no luck.

It was tested on a custom 2.6.24.3-pax-grsecurity-0.4 LINUX_2_6 kernel
(loaded with pax_softmode=1 BTW). I have tried 2 versions of v86d (both
v86d-0.1.3-1.i686) - with klibc and a standard without klibc support.

In both cases dmesg shows sth like:
[170626.597916] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=1)
[170626.597921] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
[170626.597932] uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22

Gentoo people write about building v86d against klibc builded against
linux-libc-headers with uvesafb support (I assume that our
linux-libc-headers-2.6.24.3-1.i686 are ok for this) - it haven't helped.

Any success with uvesafb ?

Greets,
Marek