On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:39 +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
You are very kind to them. Between the old way and the new, even m$
would have gone bust if they had tried that. The trouble is, the new
way
is going to be worse. They tried this with pcmcia support and
succeeded
in proving that linux
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote:
Did the cursor work adequately on 2.6 in the past ?
Never. But I never used 2.6 much.
Which version of 2.6 are you now using, and which was your
previous working version ?
2.6.12.1.
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:43:49PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
Should I choose a 2.6 kernel, the loadkeys script doesn't start, and
I get this curious messing with no cursor.
This is infuriating
I rebuilt the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels on
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote:
Which kind of tells me I didn't compile in a framebuffer at all.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.1]# grep FRAMEBUFFER .config
# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set
but the radeon module loaded a module called fb. Same thing?
Not
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:00:13PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
modprobe radeon got me a module which found the right type of card in
the agp bus. That looked good.
Good.
modprobe fbcon gave me: FATAL: Module fbcon not found.
It's 'Framebuffer Console support' in 'make menuconfig'.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:43:49PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
Should I choose a 2.6 kernel, the loadkeys script doesn't start, and I
get this curious messing with no cursor.
To me it smells like a framebuffer issue. Ok, here is (almost) all I know
about the framebuffer:
Try 'modprobe
