Re: Kernel 2.4.21

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

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 13:51, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> 
> On 26.07.03, you wrote:
> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> True. What was the reason for disabling P2-PCI in the binaries?

It tends to cause problems with other hardware expansions.


> >> 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"?
> 
> Yes. Adding this option doesn't change anything. I attached my XF86Config
> and log from XFree.

Well, I don't see anything like 'no PCI board found'. Have you tried one
of the example XF86Config-4s in the linux-apus.sf.net contrib section,
or at least not loading superfluous and potentially harmful modules like
int10 and vbe?


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