Disable vesafb?

[Dan Young]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:45:11 +0200, Martin Pitt
<martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Fedora has a boot parameter, "nofb," that allows you to disable
> > loading the vesafb module at boot. How do I prevent vesa fb from
> > loading?
> 
> Try "vga=normal", this should use the normal 80x25 text mode.

Martin,

Thanks for the reply. I tried that, as well as "video=vesa:off" to no
avail. Here's my kernel line from grub:

kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet vga=normal

lsmod still reports vesafb as loaded. I've got it listed in
/etc/hotplug/blacklist also.

-- 
Dan Young