Fbdev 2.5.49 BK fixes.

James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org)
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:22:07 +0000 (GMT)


> > Hm. Strange. It should work. Can you get serial console working?
>
> Forgot to mention, I've seen message:
> fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8
> in /var/log/dmesg.
>
> I found this printk() in fbcon_setup(), but i can't even imagine
> why it happens.

Perfect. I found the problem and I'm about to commit to BK. I posted the
latest patch against 2.5.49 at

http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz

> I understand this situation perfectly, looks like it's almost common for
> developers working in "not so importatnt for servers" subsystems :(

:-( Some day that attitude will change.

P.S

Several drivers have been ported but not all. NVIDIA is still broken
but I will fix it tonight.

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