Re: Trying to get 2.2.19+3dfx+reiserfs

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Anthony Lau wrote:
> 
> At 2:51 AM +0200 6/2/2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >Anthony Lau wrote:
> >
> >>I have tried 2.2.19 + 3dfx (works!) + reiserfs (doesn't!)
> >>linux-2.4-paulus (3dfx doesn't, can't see if reiserfs does or not)
> >>linux-2.4-benh    (same problem as paulus)
> >
> >
> >reiserfs needs endianness patches for both kernel and reiserfsprogs,
> >available from http://penguinppc.org/~jeffm/ (Ethan, have you looked
> >at the Yaboot patches yet? Do they look sane?)
> >
> >Only availabe for 2.4.x yet.
> 
> Hmm...so with the current state of kernels and patches I can either
> get a readable console or a journaling file system, but not both?
> 
> It seems XFS for ppc comes with it's own kernel source code (2.4.2),
> which means 3dfx is out.

There are also patches available for xfs, which I recently applied
to benh's 2.4.5-pre3 kernel for ppc.

As for the 3dfx, can't you just wait for X to start up?  ~:^)  Set
your system up for serial console and network access for getting X
to work.

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