Re: Fbdev 2.5.49 BK fixes.

James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org)
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:49:28 +0000 (GMT)


> I tried this patch, but it crashed during boot.

Any oops info?

> I have a
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP
> 1X/2X (rev 5c)
>
> and use this in lilo.conf:
> image=/boot/2.5.49fb
> label=2.5.49fb
> append="video=atyfb:1280x1024-16@85"

Hm. Are you using a PPC or ix86 box? I will test this tonight.

> This got me a 160x64 framebuffer with yellow text on
> blue background. Nice, but only got about 10 lines before
> the kernel hung. The disk light got stuck on and there were
> no response to things like sysrq.
> The few lines displayed was about the fb, drm, and finally
> the 3com network adapter. Then nothing more.

Sounds like panning flipped put.

> 2.5.49 without this patch works. I use devfs & preempt,
> the machine is UP and I use gcc-2.95.4 for compiling.

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