Bug#522605: closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (Bug#488669: fixed in xorg-server 2:1.4.2-10.lenny1)
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 12:28 +1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> I'm not sure how bug #522605 can be considered closed. I appreciate that
> bug #488669 can be considered closed. Indeed, the xserver was working
> fine on the MACH64 card after the kernel changes even without the
> fallback to fbdev.
>
feel free to unmerge it and reopen.
> However the same kernel fix didn't sort out the problems for MGA.
>
> And the notion of using the Frame Buffer device for MGA doesn't seem to
> me to be OK, because the lenny sparc64 kernel does not include the MGA
> fb module. Unless the Debian policy is that you make your own kernel if
> you need a specific module??? (That's fine. I am able to do that. Just
> need confirmation)
if that's just a changed config option, you could ask the kernel
maintainers to enable it in the next point release.
Cheers,
Julien
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