platinum video makes me cry...

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Hollis R Blanchard wrote:

> 
> 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.

Well, 1) Did the installer endup using no video driver? (I still don't
have a CD pair, have to bug jeff again once i settle in) 2) iirc, about a
month ago Geert (the video maintainer) was working towards his PhD and
could have easily lost the mail. 3) Where is the patch anyhow, there'll no
doubt be a kernel upgrade "soon" :)

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/


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