[Bug 527369] Re: sudo lshw causes console to turn blue on dell inspiron 1011 and fujitsu livebook T4410

[Chase Douglas]

Basically, there's no good solution to this bug for Lucid. There's no
reasonable way to keep vga16fb from loading when a suitable hw
framebuffer is available. There's a hacked solution, but due to the lack
of locking that I can find in register_framebuffer (maybe there's
locking above, but I can't be sure) I'm afraid to add code that would
prevent vga16fb from loading if another framebuffer already exists.
Adding locking would help, but that's too large of an addition to Lucid
at this point.

In M, we hope to be done with vga16fb and just use efifb, which would
hand off to nouveau/intel/radeon properly (unlike vga16fb). So this is
really just an issue with Lucid.

IMHO, for Lucid we should try to teach lshw to be careful with
framebuffers. Why does it need to open the framebuffer at all?

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sudo lshw causes console to turn blue on dell inspiron 1011 and fujitsu livebook T4410
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