On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri writes: > > > Just note that on 2.6 my video card is not supported (it's a s3 > > trio), > > Is this one of the whacky combinations that used to be supported by > the e15fb framebuffer driver, or a genuine S3 Trio supported by s3fb? > > > I already submitted those patches to debian people and they said it > > were to be included in sarge, but I don't know if it's... Leigh said > > he has a better and more general solution and asked it to be > > included instead. > > > I don't know the current status. > > The current status is that neither of the PowerPC kernel maintainers > has received any patches for this machine so far. If you can spare > the time, can you please test whether your second patch applies > cleanly against kernel-source-2.6.8 and whether the resulting kernel > runs on your machine? If yes, please file a wishlist bug against > kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8 and include the patch.
Notice that it should go in the common kernel-source patches instead, and that hch okeyed it, and that Leighh gave a more advanced patch which supercedes this one. This was in july, but then it dropped from view, and the issue was not spoken of anymore. Friendly, Sven Luther
