test6-pre9 depmod problems was [2.4 : Consistent lockups with framebuffer]

Kent Hunt (kenthunt@yahoo.com)
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:06:38 -0700 (PDT)


Thanks, selecting only atyfb and disabling vesafb
works. However, there is still a problem. Without
selecting FB in the kernel everything works fine but
with FB I have a lot of modules (maybe all) with
depmod symbol errors .

kernel: test6-pre9

--- James Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
> > CONFIG_FB=y
> > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
> > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
> > CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
> > CONFIG_FB_ATY=y
>
> You have two video cards? If not you have two fbdev
> drivers accessing the
> same video card. Not good. If the ATI driver works
> for your video card use
> that. Vesafb is very very slow and will give you the
> problems you desribe.
>

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