okay - i found this: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2000/Mar/0093.html
it talks about "we must force people to choose between vgacon and fbcon". when that forcing decision was taken, was dual fbcon-and-serial-console usage taken into account? booting with ..... console=ttyCL1 fbcon=vc:1 and then later on doing modprobe fbcon has exactly the same consequences: fbcon_takeover is called, the fbcon=vc:1 parameters appear to be ignored.... greeeeaat. how the _heck_ am i gonna over-ride the fb_console "setup" paramaters on a module load, to stop this happening??? i know - HACK TIME!!! muhahahahah. l. On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:28:45PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > in order to be able to debug what is going on, i have enabled > a dummy/virtual serial console, all is well so far. > > in order to test the screen, i have written, enabled, tested, > confirmed as reasonably working, a framebuffer driver (which > i would like to make the console framebuffer - eventually - > when the serial console is disabled and no longer needed - > so i am enabling Framebuffer Console support AS WELL as serial > console support) > > now i load the keyboard event module... splat - absolutely no response: > complete lock-up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/