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On 2002-01-28, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:24:08AM -0800, James McNally wrote:
> > Removing alleg-vga.so fixed the problem with GFX_SAFE and GFX_AUTODETECT. It
> > seems that if a framebuffer has activated (i.e VGA=...)then standard console
> > vga modes won't work. Is this correct? If so, how would one check for the
> > existence of an active framebuffer and not load alleg-vga.so if found?
>
> Drivers are somehow isolated and don't know anything about the others. The
> best you can do is modify modules.lst and put the fbcon driver on the top.
> Another good way is never running things as root, but oh well...
This is getting to be annoying, as distributions start shipping with
fbcon enabled by default. The VGA driver used to work with fbcon
active, but it seems this is no longer the case (?). If so, we should
put fbcon ahead of the VGA driver in the driver lists. Or, we can
make the VGA driver know if fbcon is active and then disable itself?