Re: pm3fb (was: pm2fb driver)

[Johann D. <jo...@Do...>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, James Simmons wrote:

> 
> > Should we try to summarize all the problems encountered so far ?
> 
> Please do. 

Here is a rough list of the problems I encountered today with the latest
CVS version:
- SMP: compiles, but hangs at boot time. No message can be seen, the
screen just remains black.
- serial code: failed to compile.
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/sf/linuxconsole/linux/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
-march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include
/home/sf/linuxconsole/linux/include/linux/modversions.h   -c -o
serial_8250_pci.o serial_8250_pci.c
serial_8250_pci.c:1079: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
serial_8250_pci.c:1079: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer
type
make[2]: *** [serial_8250_pci.o] Error 1

However, I guess this problem may simply be a configuration-related
problems. Why is this file compiled ? I guess it's only needed for
additional serial  ports using a PCI card. If I am right, I do not think I
need this. Where is the option to disable this file ? I do not see
anything PCI-related in the serial driver seection  of the make menuconfig
step.

- matrox frame buffer: failed to compile.

- key repeat: does not work well. Only 2 characters can be repeated. Is it
a bug, or a default behaviour I can change ?
- imPS2: the vertical wheel is inverted (or was it before ?)

I will try to give more details later. Time to sleep now.

-- 
Johann Deneux