On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, iam newbie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone else encountered these issues?
>
>
> 1. I just installed LM 6.0 on a system with a Voodoo3 and wanted to get
> the frame buffer working. I installed the frame buffer kernel rpm which
> includes a new initrd image and new modules. I then edited
> /etc/lilo.conf to add the new fb kernel and the line vga=ask which
> prompts for vga mode during boot. After running /sbin/lilo resulted in
> the following message from LILO:
>
> VGA mode presetting is not supported by your kernel.
>
> Okay, the current kernel doesn't have fb support so I commented out
> vga=ask ran /sbin/lilo which worked and then rebooted to the fb kernel.
> With the fb kernel running I re-ran /sbin/lilo with vga=ask and got the
> same message.
>
> To shorten the story I had to load the source RPM for lilo and found the
> above error message will always display for the vga= prompt if
> NORMAL_VGA is not defined. NORMAL_VGA is not defined anywhere in the
> LILO source. It is defined in /usr/src/linux/include/asm/boot.h I
> added #include <asm/boot.h> to bsect.h and lilo.c This new lilo fixed
> the problem. I noticed there's a new lilo in LM 6.0 updates and I wonder
> if it was also compiled without vga= support.
No the updated lilo is to fix "VGA mode presetting is not supported by
your kernel"
> 2. This one is minor. Midnight Commander uses lynx to view html.
> Everytime lynx is executed ither by mc or directly on the command line I
> get an error that metamail cannot open/find tmp files. I uninstalled
> metamail and lynx. I then installed lynx from RH 6.0 and it works
> fine. Could this just be a configuration problem in either LM's
> metamail or lynx.
mkdir ~/tmp , it's a problem with the installer
> 3. Does any know what symbols need to be set to build XFree 3.3.4
> correctly? I did a test build on a RH 6 system and it works but it did
> not copy all the files to the correct places during make install. I did
> manually compare the RH 6 X source to X 3.3.4 and made the obvious
> changes but I don't know if I did everything correctly. Also, is it
> safe to use pentium compiler optimization on X. I looked at the LM 6
> XFree86 3.3.3.1 source and could find no occurrence of -mpentium or
> -march=pentium in the xc/config/cf/*.cf files or the top level
> makefiles.
Not off hand, you could try the cooker(*) packages though and save
yourself some compileing.
> TIA
> scott
>
(*)http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/
