From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268417AbTGNIwW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 04:52:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268462AbTGNIwW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 04:52:22 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:32971 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268417AbTGNIwT (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 04:52:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:07:01 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Paul Nasrat , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-ID: <20030714090701.GA31049@ucw.cz> References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> <20030711150220.GG28359@raq465.uk2net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030711150220.GG28359@raq465.uk2net.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:02:21PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:02:19PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > > > Known gotchas. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Certain known bugs are being reported over and over. Here are the > > workarounds. > > - Blank screen after decompressing kernel? > > Make sure your .config has > > CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > > A lot of people have discovered that taking their .config from 2.4 and > > running make oldconfig to pick up new options leads to problems, notably > > with CONFIG_VT not being set. > > You might want to mention the synaptics touchpad driver/event for > XFree86, as I'm sure that will be a FAQ amongst laptop users > > http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ Yes, please, this is very much needed. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR