[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What do you mean, you X instal may die ???
> do they install a kernel incompatible whith their X distrib ????
> At what condition will the beast NOT die for sure ?
> Philippe
Philippe, the problem is apparantly some slightly broken video chipsets,
especially with ATI controllers. The _BETA_ has "CONFIG_FB" turned on
for frame buffer support, which barfs on those faulty chipsets. After
I did the upgrade to RH 6.2B3 (Piglet) from RH 6.1, when X ran all I
got was a line of dots at the bottom of the screen. Since I'd been
warned about the frame buffer issue I just recompiled the kernel with
the specified changes; didn't even have to make any mods to the X
configuration, just started X with the recompiled kernel & all was
well.
I've received an email from inside RH that stated that the "CONFIG_FB"
option will be off in the final kernel until the frame buffer questions
have been resolved.
This _really_isn't_a_problem_! X didn't work on my system with an
ATI chipset (Rage Pro 3D), worked fine on my Matrox G200 equipped
system.
best
rickf
> Rick Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > has anyone tried 6.2? if so how is it?
>
> So far, great. The only minor gotcha is that the kernel is compiled
> with frame buffering; your X installation may die. The fix for that
> is to do the following steps:
>
> 1. "cd /usr/src/linux"
> 2. "make oldconfig"
> 3. edit .config, look for "CONFIG_FB=y", change the 'y' to 'n'.
> 4. "make oldconfig"
> 5. "make dep"
> 6. "make clean"
> 7. "make bzImage"
> 8. "make modules"
> 9. "make modules_install"
> 10. "cd arch/i368/boot"
> 11. "cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-2.5.0"
> 12. "lilo"
> 13. "shutdown -r now"
>
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