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Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400



On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:20:26PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Claus wrote:
> > see my attached quik.conf (working on a 3400)
> 
> init-code="dev /bandit/ohare/via-pmu backlight-on/"
> 
> what does this mean exactly?
> 
> The rest seems pretty self-explanatory... I'm compiling 2.2.17 right now.
> 
> > compile your kernel >= 2.2.15pre14 with
> > # CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT is not set
> 
> I gather the default LinuxPPC kernel has CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT=y ? (at least,
> my .config had it, generated by make pmac-config and make
> menuconfig)... Is it absolutely mandatory to remove this option?

So what exactly do we lose by turning this off?  The messages will
still be made available later on, right?

I'm tempted to disable it for the next round of kernel packages unless
someone gives me a good reason not to.


Dan

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