From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 02:00:55 +1000

Re: kgicon FAQ

James H. Cloos Jr. 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.

Worse than that, it *is* going to be removed, it is only a question of
when.  Hopefully there will be some proper multihead support in the
kernel by the time that happens.

Cheers,
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