2.6.0-test 2 & matroxfb or orinoco wifi card
Quoted 2 lines · Jan Huijsmans
After digging a bit in the archives I couldn't find the solution to my problem, so I'm asking you guys.
It is bug in matroxfb. I sent patch to Linus already, but it did not found its way through his email filters yet. I'll try again...
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I found the "matroxfb and 2.6.0-test2" thread, so it's possible to compile the kernel with the matrox framebuffer, but I can't find what I'm missing. Did I forget to set a config option (all copied from the 2.4.21 config except the nForce2 agp chipset)?
But anyway, you are trying to build your kernel without virtual terminal support (and, BTW, did you enable support for keyboard?) and it is probably not what you want.
If you really insist on kernel without VT support (your screen will be black! your monitor will poweroff...), you can apply patch from ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matroxfb-novt.gz.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
Quoted 5 lines · On 29-Jul-2003 Petr Vandrovec wrote:
Quoted 2 lines · Jan Huijsmans
After digging a bit in the archives I couldn't find the solution to my problem, so I'm asking you guys.
It is bug in matroxfb. I sent patch to Linus already, but it did not found its way through his email filters yet. I'll try again...
Hmmm, I found the patch, but that didn't help. (I suspect you're talking about the matroxfb-2.5.72 patch mentioned on the list)
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I found the "matroxfb and 2.6.0-test2" thread, so it's possible to compile the
kernel with the matrox framebuffer, but I can't find what I'm missing. Did I forget to set a config option (all copied from the 2.4.21 config except the nForce2 agp chipset)?But anyway, you are trying to build your kernel without virtual terminal support (and, BTW, did you enable support for keyboard?) and it is probably not what you want.
I found the keyboard setting, after which the VT support came available. Wierd that I didn't find it myself, as my laptop has no problems with 2.6 (accept that I need to recompile the pcmcia package) and it's not using a framebuffer.
It compiled without a problem this time. I'm afraid I have to test it tomorrow, as my boss prefers me to be awake at work. (and I prefer to be awake when driving there ;-))
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