platinum video makes me cry...

[Hollis R Blanchard]

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Mark Abene wrote:
> 
> The good news is that I finally got around to installing linuxppc-1999 (R5)
> on my 7200.  The BAD news is that much to my chagrin, the changes I made to
> fix the platinum video driver in the newer kernels (which I submitted to the
> code maintainer nearly a month ago, if not more) are NOT present in R5!
> I was greeted by the sickly-looking psychedelic arch-nemesis of Tux the
> penguin.
> Suffice to say, gnome came up looking like a bad acid trip.

Strangely enough, the kernel the installer uses was right. I was very
pleasently surprised to see Tux in the correct colors when I went to install.
Of course, the kernel the installer actually installs is screwed up in this
respect.

-Hollis


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