On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > Woooooaaah.... Apparently I'm very lucky, because the SLC here wasn't > > damaged. :-)) But I can confirm: X doesn't work if a kernel 2.2.x is > > running. > > (Tested up to 2.2.10) Text mode works fine if you ignore the big wipe stripe > > running down on the left side of the screen. ;-)) > > Don't worry, the SLC didn't die because of the bwtwo bug :) Its just old. > > > So.... There is NO chance to get 2.0.37 running...?? > > (btw. 2.2.x would be even better- but I don't dare to ask.... ;-)) > > The bwtwo driver is pretty simple so shouldn't be too hard to fix (hint to > anyone :)
It wasn't too hard to fix. I checked a one-liner into the CVS tree last night, basically go into linux/drivers/video/bwtwofb.c, find the line which reads fb->physbase = phys; and make it read: fb->physbase = __get_phys(fb->sbdp->sbus_vaddrs[0]); -D
