Re: pm3fb (was: pm2fb driver)

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> 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.

Using VGA console? Must be a locking issue. I'm going to order another CPU
for my system today. 

> - 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.


I see you are trying out the new serial code. Don't enable the new serial
driver stuff. If you don't enable it the old stuff with reappear. That
stuff is experiemental. I will play with it this weekend.

> - matrox frame buffer: failed to compile.

Note ported over to ruby yet. That is a big job which will take several
days to do. 

> - key repeat: does not work well. Only 2 characters can be repeated. Is it
> a bug, or a default behaviour I can change ?

I believe this caused by the code in kd_mksound in vt_ioctl.c. Try
commenting that out and it should work. 

> - imPS2: the vertical wheel is inverted (or was it before ?)

Hm. Vojtech?