Re: 2.6.0-test1: Matrox framebuffer does not build

Re: 2.6.0-test1: Matrox framebuffer does not build

[Christian Garbs [Master Mitch]]

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:34:04PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > I tried to upgrade my 2.4.21 .config to 2.6.0-test1.  The Matrox
> > framebuffer seems to create some problems: the kernel build fails.
> 
> :-( I will look into it. It worked before. 

Ooops, my bad:  I didn't set all of CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y,
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y as described in Known
Gotchas in post-halloween-2.5.txt.

Now the kernel builds fine.  I'll try booting it later.

Regards,
Christian
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Re: 2.6.0-test1: Matrox framebuffer does not build

[Petr Vandrovec]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:40:34PM +0200, Christian Garbs [Master Mitch] wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:34:04PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried to upgrade my 2.4.21 .config to 2.6.0-test1.  The Matrox
> > > framebuffer seems to create some problems: the kernel build fails.
> > 
> > :-( I will look into it. It worked before. 
> 
> Ooops, my bad:  I didn't set all of CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y,
> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y as described in Known
> Gotchas in post-halloween-2.5.txt.
> 
> Now the kernel builds fine.  I'll try booting it later.

Or just remove it. palette array is write-only in stripped down matroxfb driver
which is present in 2.5.x kernels.
									Petr