Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:07:01 +0200


On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:02:21PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:02:19PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > Known gotchas.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Certain known bugs are being reported over and over. Here are the
> > workarounds.
> > - Blank screen after decompressing kernel?
> > Make sure your .config has
> > CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> > A lot of people have discovered that taking their .config from 2.4 and
> > running make oldconfig to pick up new options leads to problems, notably
> > with CONFIG_VT not being set.
>
> You might want to mention the synaptics touchpad driver/event for
> XFree86, as I'm sure that will be a FAQ amongst laptop users
>
> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

Yes, please, this is very much needed.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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