FRAMEBUFFER (and console)
Hi
Is there any way to give the console a kick in the pants?
My framebuffer (and therefore system console, by definition) come up rather late.
It seems the console doesnt care to check for drivers comming up after a certain time, and thus I get no output despite the driver working.
I'd like to do something like console_rescan_my_damn_device() if possible :-)
My only option right now appears to be to set up a dummy framebuffer prior to real one starting up.
TIA.
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My framebuffer (and therefore system console, by definition) come up rather late.
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It seems the console doesnt care to check for drivers comming up after a certain time, and thus I get no output despite the driver working.
I'd like to do something like
console_rescan_my_damn_device()if possible :-)My only option right now appears to be to set up a dummy framebuffer prior to real one starting up.
The reason for this is because the framebuffers most often depend on the bus being set up. Usually this happening later in the boot process. What are trying to do? Retrieve the earlier printk messages. Do you have DUMMY_CONSOLE set to Y. I believe the data is transfered from dummycon to fbcon after fbcon is initialized. If you having problems with that try increasing the size of dummycon's "screen". See dummycon.c for more details.