From: James A Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:01:51 -0400 (EDT)

Re: Matrox Mystique update

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> > BTW, I forgot to mention 2 bugs:
> > - fbcon-kgi hangs the computer if no vgafb driver is loaded
> >   beforehand, i.e. fbcon-kgi may not be loaded first.
> 
> Huh?
> It has been working fine for me with Linux 2.1.114 since at
> least Aug 6 (when my oldest kgicon.o is from).

Same here. I don't use vgafb or vesafb. If I do cat /proc/fb I get 
0 KGI

If you mean vgacon. This is linked in by default.