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Re: XF4 on Mach64 and 2.2 kernel?



Michel Dänzer wrote:

> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > I'll look into the signal 11 in xf86cfg.
>
> I wouldn't bother about it.
>
> If you want to try the ati driver, copying the fbdev Device Section and adding
> Option "UseFBDev" may work. Good luck :)

Hmm, given your warning, maybe I'll stick to fbdev for now.  It's fast enough for
everything- except hashing the screen during a GNOME logout, but I don't do that
too often. :-)

> > And it fails with 2.2.18pre21 for two reasons: the fb doesn't give it a
> > default mode (so I need to set it),
>
> Note that the 3.3 way of using a mode "default" doesn't work anymore. You need
> to use an empty Modes line (or none at all) for the fbdev driver to use the
> default mode.

Okay, commented it out.

> > and I haven't figured out how to cenfigure it for the new input layer stuff
> > (gpm fails too).
>
> Have you looked at http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ and followed the link to
> Franz Sirl's page on the new input layer?

Akhaaa!  Very nice.  Now gpm and X work great!  And I have 3-button emulation!

Now I can use prebuilt Debian kernel-image packages!  I'm very happy.

> > And the ati driver locks hard with 2.2.15, but I was warned.  (Can't use
> > 2.4 full-time until the ipmasq package supports it.)
>
> It doesn't? Why not?

Differences between ipchains and netfilter.  From
/usr/share/doc/ipmasq/ipmasq.txt.gz:

     3.6 is tenatively slated to add support for the netfilter kernel
     interface found in later 2.3 and 2.4 kernels.  For more information
     about netfilter, please see http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/.

Thanks again very much!

-Adam P.

              Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!



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