Hello All, Have recently upgraded from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2. The video card in the computer is a SiS 315 based card. The standard video drivers supplied with 8.1 and 8.2 don't support this card. Under MDK8.1, I downloaded the 2.4.18 kernel from kernel.org and compiled in the sisfb driver from Thomas Winischhofer's site. I found the driver needed to be compiled into the kernel rather than a module because sisfb needs to be initialised before the vga framebuffer drivers get in.
The new MDK8.2 kernel comes with a fancy new startup screen. Currently, I simply boot using the old kernel (2.4.18) rather than the Mandrake kernel (2.4.18-26mdk). I would like to use the new kernel. Is there a way that I can build a module for this kernel and add it to the initial RAMdisc or something so that it initialises before the fb driver? How do I specify parameters to the driver? If I need to rebuild the kernel, will I lose the new loading screen? (I can't seem to find the appropriate graphic anywhere?) Regards, -- R ### Michael Curtis RISC OS fanatic I # # Electronics enthusiast S # # C # # Software and Acorn Users Waikato : O ######## http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jamjars/ S # A computer on every desk, and linux on every one of them.
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