Hi Save,

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:57:24 -0500 Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> v86d:
>   Installed: 0.1.6-1+klibc-1.5.14-1~exp1+linux-2.6.27-rc5-tip-master+fac8f1e4
>   Candidate: 0.1.6-1+klibc-1.5.14-1~exp1+linux-2.6.27-rc5-tip-master+fac8f1e4
>   Version table:
>  *** 0.1.6-1+klibc-1.5.14-1~exp1+linux-2.6.27-rc5-tip-master+fac8f1e4 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      0.1.5.2-1 0
>         990 ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu unstable/main Packages
> 
> which indicates that the last version of 'v86d' available as a Debian
> package is still 0.1.5.2!  The UVESA FB website lists the lastest
> version as 0.1.9!!

Yupp, you can find some test-builds of 0.1.9 on
http://die-welt.net/~evgeni/v86d/
:)

> Also, I requested before that the scripts used to produce the DEBs
> should include the 'misc/initramfs' file in some shared directory in
> the filesystem, so that later kernel compilations could continue to
> use the currently-installed 'v86d' package via the CONFIG_INITRAMFS_
> SOURCE kernel option.  The UVESA FB author seems to have standardized
> a location for packages to install that file (see step 6 under
> "uvesafb::installation instructions" at the website mentioned above):
> 
>     /usr/share/v86d/initramfs

Will be added to the next build :)

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