2.5.70-mm4
re. cdrom mount problem: so far, so good with all combinations.
vesafb problem: does not work with memory >1Gb.
with patch:
vesafb.c renamed from vesafb.c.old +1 -1
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ vesafb_defined.xres = screen_info.lfb_width; vesafb_defined.yres = screen_info.lfb_height; vesafb_fix.line_length = screen_info.lfb_linelength; - vesafb_fix.smem_len = screen_info.lfb_size *65536 ; + vesafb_fix.smem_len = screen_info.lfb_width * screen_info.lfb_height *
vesafb_defined.bits_per_pixel;
vesafb_fix.visual = (vesafb_defined.bits_per_pixel == 8) ?
FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR : FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR;
from http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19061 all is ok. it is not the time to apply this patch?
Quoted 3 lines · Vitalis Tiknius
re. cdrom mount problem: so far, so good with all combinations.
vesafb problem: does not work with memory >1Gb.
There is a more complete fix in the -ac tree. The one you have there is ought on memory allocation by a factor of eight and doesn't allow for double buffering and catching some corner cases.
The 2.4 one has been evolving somewhat over time