From: James H. Cloos Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: 09 Aug 1998 03:06:44 -0500

Re: kgicon FAQ

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au> writes:

Andrew> People need to use _vgafb_ instead of vgacon, since there is
Andrew> no way to remap consoles between vgacon and framebuffer
Andrew> devices at the moment (and FBIOPUT_CON2FBMAP only works for
Andrew> framebuffer consoles).  An extra paragraph about reconfiguring
Andrew> the kernel to use vgafb would be great.

That is a problem.  Vgafb is broken and is likely to be removed from
the kernel rather than fixed.

-JimC
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