[CentOS] CentOS 5 VESAFB

[Jim Perrin]

On 5/1/07, clorden at altern.org <clorden at altern.org> wrote:
> Hello.
> Does anyone know why
> # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set
> in kernel config?
>
> I find very useful having a large text console on servers (exp. without X
> running!). Now my setting vga=0x345 in grub.conf does not work anymore...
> Thanks!

This is an upstream bug/oversight in the kernel build that was
inherited in c5. I submitted a bug about this a while back as it's a
feature I use as well. See ->
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216528

This option is slated to be added back into the kernel for 5.1.

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