From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:51:14 +1000

Re: kgicon FAQ

James writes:

>  > 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).  An extra
>  > paragraph about reconfiguring the kernel to use vgafb would be great.
>  
>  I don't get it--I'm using vgacon, and kgicon works fine.  Upon insertion,
>  fbcon takes over the console and the kgi driver becomes fb0.

Really ?  I remember seeing some "if (first) take_over_console" stuff
somewhere in the fbcon initialization, I guess it actually works.

Cheers,
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