Re: 2.6.18-rc6-mm1

thunder7
2006-09-10T06:31:26Z

From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Date: Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:02:45AM +0200
> Hi Andrew, Jurriaan, Antonino,
>
> So my guess is that Jurriaan's graphics adapter is supported by the
> savagefb driver, but the driver doesn't create an i2c bus for it
> (either because the hardware doesn't have it, or we simply have no
> support.) Jurriaan, please confirm that your adapter is not one of
> Savage4, Savage2000, ProSavagePM, ProSavage8.

lspci calls it 'S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)'

>
> If my analysis is correct, the following patch should fix the problem.
> It can probably be optimized/cleaned up, but I'll leave that to
> Antonino. Jurriaan, can you please apply this patch on top of
> 2.6.18-rc6-mm1 and report success or failure?

This patch fixes my problems, rc6-mm1 boots without problems even with
the savagefb driver builtin.

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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