From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Jeff Rugen <jprugen@earthlink.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: RTC and SCSI for PowerStack/2.4.6 Kernel
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 22:54:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010709225422.A13485@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107091331300.1795-100000@raptor.earthlink.net>; from jprugen@earthlink.net on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:37:47PM -0700
On Mon, Jul 09, Jeff Rugen wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 09, Jeff Rugen wrote:
> >
> > > I did have VGA console be the default, and installed clgenfb as a module.
> >
> > Is there a way to rmmod the module later?
> > The colors are wrong in X whit >8bit and the console is slow with fbcon :)
> >
>
> I haven't tried removing it, but as far as I know, support for that still
> isn't there. I tended to use Xbh rather than XFBDev for my X server,
> because Xbh it at least had some acceleration in it. But I am still using
> 3.3.6 (or something like that) for X. I don't know if Xbh is downloadable
> from anywhere these days, but I had planned on playing with X once 2.4.x
> is relatively stable on my machine. What version of X do people run on
> the PowerStack these days (if at all)?
I run 4.1.0 and it appears to be usable with "fbdev" as driver. It
should be faster than3.3.6.
There must be a copy of Xbh somewhere, but it segfaulted for me last
time I tried it (and removed it from the distro ;). Maybe the hardware
didnt match :)
I could put it in pneguinppc.org if needed.
Gruss Olaf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-09 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-08 7:49 RTC and SCSI for PowerStack/2.4.6 Kernel Jeff Rugen
2001-07-08 19:00 ` Tom Rini
2001-07-09 14:38 ` Jeff Rugen
2001-07-09 14:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-09 14:57 ` Tom Rini
2001-07-09 15:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-07-09 15:17 ` Tom Rini
2001-07-09 15:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-09 16:20 ` Jeff Rugen
2001-07-09 18:48 ` Olaf Hering
2001-07-09 20:37 ` Jeff Rugen
2001-07-09 20:54 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2001-12-13 16:13 ` Tom Rini
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