Re: 2.4 Kernel Upgrade
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:41PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> Well, I finally got my 2.4 kernel to compile, using BenH's tree, rsync'd
> and all. But then try to boot using it? Didn't work. What sorts of
> details do I need to provide? Are there any "gotchas" I should know
> about?
How far do you get? Where exactly does it die?
> .... I know that potato requires a little tweaking
> to use the 2.4, but I didn't think woody did.
It didn't here.
> .... Currently I've got the extra
> arguments set at video=tdfx:1024x768-8@60, and I compiled 3dfx into the
> 2.4 kernel.
You should be able to get away w/ video=1024x768-8@60
> When I start up with this setting (using the 2.4), I get the
> most interesting color scheme, and I can't read any of the console
> messages. If I remove the arguments, I get a completely blank screen
> (and therefore I can't read the console, either :-)
Can you get in remotely and see how it's doing? tdfxfb could have
issues once again on PPC machines..
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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