From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hollis@austin.ibm.com Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:24:55 -0500 To: Robert E Brose II Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Stock 2.4.10 kernel on RS6K 7248 Message-ID: <20010926082455.A434@austin.ibm.com> References: <20010926045943.4528.qmail@kunk.jriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010926045943.4528.qmail@kunk.jriver.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:59:43PM -0500, Robert E Brose II wrote: > > 1) When booting the 2.4.10 kernel as opposed to the 2.2.18 kernel, the > virtual consoles have the character and attribute REVERSED so there is > junk on the screen when one first switches. Subsequent characters > displayed work properly however. 2.4.10 is using the VGA console > driver in this case because the frame buffer driver wasn't > compiled in. This problem has been fixed in a large video driver patch that Geert posted a month or two ago. > 2) A little more problematic, I'd like to run X on this (it IS a > workstation). [snip] I don't know... isn't it a requirement that you can run X before you can call it a workstation? ;) At any rate, I don't think anyone except you has tried to hack 2.2's e15fb into 2.4... -Hollis ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/