On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 12:28 +1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi Julien,
> 
> I'm not sure how bug #522605 can be considered closed. I appreciate that 
> bug #488669 can be considered closed. Indeed, the xserver was working 
> fine on the MACH64 card after the kernel changes even without the 
> fallback to fbdev.
> 
feel free to unmerge it and reopen.

> However the same kernel fix didn't sort out the problems for MGA.
> 
> And the notion of using the Frame Buffer device for MGA doesn't seem to 
> me to be OK, because the lenny sparc64 kernel does not include the MGA 
> fb module. Unless the Debian policy is that you make your own kernel if 
> you need a specific module??? (That's fine. I am able to do that. Just 
> need confirmation)

if that's just a changed config option, you could ask the kernel
maintainers to enable it in the next point release.

Cheers,
Julien



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