From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:54:25 +1000

Re: some problems

Karsten Petersen writes:

>  On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Andrew Apted wrote:
>  
>  > FWIW, both mdafb and vgafb will soon be removed from Linus' kernel (they
>  > have already disappeared from the VGER kernel).  When that happens, just
>  > use vgacon and mdacon instead.
>  hm??? sorry, i haven't read so much linux-kernel the last weeks. are 
>  these two new inside the kernel or some external packages?

Inside the kernel.  Vgacon is already there (vgafb is/was the
framebuffer version without all the features like font-setting and
power saving), and mdacon will soon replace mdafb.

Cheers,
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