[wellylug] Framebuffer troubles

[Cliff Pratt]

jumbophut wrote:
> 
> I was under the impression that vesafb uses the BIOS to set the video
> mode and only works in real mode, so that loading the module in a bash
> script (which is what the initrd does) after boot is not going to
> work.
> 
As I understand it, the initrd is for exactly this situation 
- it loads the modules that are *required* at boot time, eg 
scsi drivers, sata drivers and whatnot.

When you say "it fails", what exactly happens?


Cheers,

Cliff