Hello, Jorge. On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 23:44:51 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 5:29 PM Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> Hello, Alan > > > $ patch -p0 <../patch_for_5.14.diff > > > patching file ./drivers/tty/vt/vt.c > > > Hunk #1 FAILED at 3208. > > > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file ./drivers/tty/vt/vt.c.rej > > attached. Please start again from a gentoo-sources without any previous > > traces of the scrollback patches, and apply that patch. _Surely_ it > > should work this time. > Sure enough, the patch was succesful. Unfortunately, I cannot test it, > because my computer is out of luck (big thunderstorm, crappy power > provider, not-so-smart owner). I'm sorry to hear it. I'm sure you've done it already, but get a decent backup from that machine somehow while it is still even partly working. > I can ssh into it and it all seems fine, but VT's other than tty1 go > dim after 1 or 2 seconds (showing the greeting) and then go black; I > can login blindly! I'm sure it has nothing to do with the patch, > since I also booted the former kernel (for which the previous patch > has been applied with success as expected) and it happens the same. > Damaged UPS or MO, maybe... Anyway, I'll try again when I manage to > fix or replace the computer and I'll report then. OK, thanks! > Thanks, > Jorge Almeida > P.S. I just noticed you mention gentoo-sources. I use the vanilla > kernel from kernel.org. Could that be a problem? Highly unlikely. I doubt very much there's any difference in the tty code between vanilla and gentoo-sources, but even so, I'm now basing my patches on a Linux repository cloned from their central repository server. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
