On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 10:47:36PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> In the last mail Russell King - ARM Linux Admin said:
>
> Now, this was why I didn't boot. I wasn't expecting linux 2.2.2 to change
> resolution. 2.0.35 sits nicely in the mode RISC OS left the machine in.
> So my next question is - how do I get 2.2.2 (or 2.2.3) to switch to 1360x1024
> in 8 bpp?
There's a util called fbset. I don't know the original site, but you can
get it in the debian slink distribution in main/source/admin/fbset*
> So, IT BOOTS. It works enough to compile kernels. I can't run X - xinit dies
> with "
>
> Using VT7
>
> VT_GETSCRINFO failed
> "
I think you need to run XF68_FBDev instead of Russell's X port. Or is the
old console driver still available, Russell?
> I can't run screen - I get many many lines of "modprobe: Out of file handles"
> and then a final message about no more ptys.
>
> It also refused to load my ppp module. I think it's refusing to load all
> modules. It may be because the 2.2.0 kernel needs it to load the Acorn FPE,
> and it appears to be trying this for 2.2.2. Not sure.
I don't think that's correct - the boot messages you pasted before show you
have the NWFPE built in. You do however probably need newer modutils than
the ones you currently have. Bjorn Ekwall has a snapshot up for people to
try out - http://www.pi.se/blox/modutils/
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