From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 15:48:49 -0700 (PDT)

Re: kgicon FAQ

On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Andrew Apted wrote:

> Jon writes:
> 
> >  	I wrote one up yesterday and sent it to the maintainer of the x86 
> >  framebuffer HOWTO.  A new version of that howto should be out soon with 
> >  the kgicon info included.  Here's what I sent him, although he may do 
> >  some refarmatting and/or trimming and it mill probably be HTML-ized.
> 
> Good FAQ !
> 
> There's just one thing:
> 
> >  	kgicon comes with an 'insert' shell script in the kgi/ directory
> >  that will insmod the driver module and call the con2fbmap utility to remap
> >  your virtual consoles from the old driver (usually vgacon) to the new
> >  kgicon driver.  By default, all VCs are remapped.
> 
> People need to use _vgafb_ instead of vgacon, since there is no way to
> remap consoles between vgacon and framebuffer devices at the moment
> (and FBIOPUT_CON2FBMAP only works for framebuffer consoles).  

	Is that what is causing con2fbmap to oops everyone's machines? 

> An extra
> paragraph about reconfiguring the kernel to use vgafb would be great.

	vgafb is going away.  Another solution will have to be found.

jon

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