Re: Kernel 2.4.21

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 11:12, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hello a.l...@lb...
> 
> On 25.07.03, you wrote:
> 
> >> The second disfunctional thing in 2.4.21 is the Permedia2-PCI.
> 
> > does this rely on the default PCI enabling for the APUS kernel - thats
> > been disabled by default since 2.4.18 later updates. 

Well, I merely disabled CONFIG_PCI_PERMEDIA in the binaries, Marek is
obviously building his own kernels with it enabled.

> > does this now stop usage of the Permedia2 ?
> 
> I think yes. On kernel without P2-PCI XFree86 can be used only though
> "fbdev" driver, which is very slow. Glint doesn't work at all (even after
> removing the "BusID" option from config there is a lot of unresolved
> symbols and driver quits with message "no pci board found" or something
> simmilar).  

Even with Option "UseFBDev"?


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