Hello!
> As far as I could tell, "scan" simply caused the nonstandard video
> driver scan modules (unsafe probes) to be invoked. Since those modules
> are no longer present, there appeared to be no need for them. The VGA
> and VESA probes are safe.
"scan" is still useful, because it is able to find BIOS video modes with
non-standard numbers (they are still sometimes found on recent cards).
Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <[email protected]> http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
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