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Offline coreplayer2

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Console mode driver?
« on: February 28, 2012, 02:43:41 PM »
After terminating X with Ctrl Alt Backspace, which driver is running the console output please?

Offline curaga

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Re: Console mode driver?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2012, 02:54:17 PM »
VGA text mode, unless you have explicitly specified the vesa framebuffer or loaded a KMS driver.
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Re: Console mode driver?
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2012, 02:06:27 AM »
Thanks, this makes sense now.