platinum video card not in kernels >2.1.128?

Sean Harding sharding at gutenberg.uoregon.edu
Tue Mar 2 16:38:30 EST 1999


On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, P. Barrette wrote:

> I've been told that the new kernels 2.2.x no longer support the platinum
> video driver which the 7200 uses;  but I note that there is a platinum
> option in the config.  Since I have no OF and serial output dumps garbage

It works fine for me. The video shoudn't be the problem. The 7200 does
have OF, you just can't have it output to the screen. If you're getting
garbage from the serial port, your terminal probably isn't configured
correctly.

sean

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