Re: Mitsumi CD and penguin logo on compact boot disks
I had a mitsumi i believe (may matsushita, not sure), the module spcd worked for it
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Randolph Chung wrote:
> > 1. It seemed to me that my Mitsumi CD-ROM drive was not
> > supported by the rescue disk. I had first to use the
> > driver disk. It would be nice to have either the mcd.o
> > or the mcdx.o driver directly in the kernel.
>
> Built in modules cause all sorts of problems. I'm not sure we'll be able to
> do this. For woody we need to look into a different initrd-based solution,
> but for now I'm afraid we won't be able to support these older CD-ROMs as
> built in modules.
>
> > 2. At boot time a penguin logo appeared and the text-mode
> > was switched from standard 25x80 to 30x80! I don't know
> > the use of the logo and the uncommon textmode, but it
> > seemed to me, that this is the cause of two problems:
>
> This is not really an "uncommon textmode"; it's the framebuffer feature in
> the kernel.
>
> Can you tell me what you get when you run the "fbset" command? (If you don't
> have it yet, it's in the fbset pacakge). We might be able to do something
> about that....
>
> > a) In `vi' (elvis-tiny) the first five lines are always
> > garbled, also sometimes in `less' etc.
>
> hrm, you need to do "stty rows 30"
>
> > b) Worse, the xserver-svga seems to have problems when
> > switching from the uncommon 30x80 to graphics mode,
> > when you have an ET4000/W32P chip. This is already
> > documented in README.Tseng or so.
>
> try: "fbset -xres 640 -yres 480 -depth 8" before running X and see if that helps.
>
> > How can I get rid of this logo and the uncommon
> > textmode?
>
> If we can't get it to work by fiddling with fbset there's a
> disable-fbdev-by-default patch floating around that I can apply to the
> kernel, but I prefer not to use non-standard kernel patches if we can avoid them.
>
> randolph
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