Just a quick note to recap -- for anyone interested -- my exploits with 2.6.0 over the past 24 hours (with thanks to Terje for his encouragement ;-).
I've managed to enable what I'll call "quasi" fb support -- that is, small fonts similar to what one would get with fb buffer/video selection enabled and a GRUB kernel option of vga=791. This is important to me as I do a lot of work from the command line, and I've gotten used to having lots of real estate to work in.
Here's the pertinent .config options:
# Graphics support
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=Y CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
Which nets me a font somewhat smaller than fb/vga=791.
In grub.conf, appended to my kernel line, I have:
video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31A
A couple further observations:
- rsync hung hard on my tonight during a routine backup/transfer under 2.6.0 -- never done this under 2.4.20. I'll have to investigate this one further....
- my init process serves up the following errors:
===snip=== * Mounting proc at /proc... * No /sys to mount sysfs needed in 2.5+ kernels!
* Using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4: * Loading module emu10k1... * Failed to load emu10k1
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.0-test1/modules.dep: No such file or directory
===ends===
- anyone know if I have to manually create the /sys directory? Bug? [creating the /sys directory removes the error -- tested as I was writing this]
- apparently the init scripts are looking for the ../kernel-2.4 module dir. Bug?
- I compiled SBLive support direct into the kernel -- no joy. No sound.
- the current nvidia kernel will not compile against 2.6.0 -- you'll have to use the default XFree nv driver.
- If you've got your mouse threshold up (mine was at 6), cursor movement under 2.6 is erratic and skitzy. Drop it back to the default of about 3 and you'll be good to go.
All else appears "normal" at this time. More as I learn more.
Best, /tom
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