From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:25:59 +0200 (CEST)

Re: kgicon FAQ

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Andrew Apted wrote:
> 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.

The `first' is the first frame buffer device.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium