User hollis@austin.ibm.com says:

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:59:43PM -0500, Robert E Brose II wrote:

quoted

1) When booting the 2.4.10 kernel as opposed to the 2.2.18 kernel, the
virtual consoles have the character and attribute REVERSED so there is
junk on the screen when one first switches. Subsequent characters
displayed work properly however. 2.4.10 is using the VGA console
driver in this case because the frame buffer driver wasn't
compiled in.

This problem has been fixed in a large video driver patch that Geert posted a
month or two ago.

Ok, I'll dig that out. I WAS impressed that all the other fixes made it
into the stock kernel source.

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2) A little more problematic, I'd like to run X on this (it IS a
workstation).

[snip]

I don't know... isn't it a requirement that you can run X before you can call
it a workstation? ;)

Touche, it WAS a workstation when it was running AIX ;)

At any rate, I don't think anyone except you has tried to hack 2.2's e15fb
into 2.4...

Then I'll keep hacking :)

Bob
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