Bug#705784: Auto-loading lxfb on OLPC XO systems

2013-04-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2013-04-29 9:17, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Ben Hutchings (29/04/2013): I've uploaded and opened an unblock bug (#706367). I didn't remember to set urgency=high, so please overide that. Do I need to do anything more? Just needs a release guy to let it through. :) A slightly larger patch th

Bug#705784: Auto-loading lxfb on OLPC XO systems

2013-04-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (29/04/2013): > I've uploaded and opened an unblock bug (#706367). I didn't remember to > set urgency=high, so please overide that. Do I need to do anything > more? Just needs a release guy to let it through. :) A slightly larger patch than I anticipated, but the changes look san

Bug#705784: Auto-loading lxfb on OLPC XO systems

2013-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 22:51 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Adam D. Barratt (20/04/2013): > > On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 03:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > [x86 XO systems need a framebuffer driver which udev blacklists] > > > This will result in a regression when upgrading one of these > >

Bug#705784: Auto-loading lxfb on OLPC XO systems

2013-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Adam D. Barratt (20/04/2013): > On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 03:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > [x86 XO systems need a framebuffer driver which udev blacklists] > > This will result in a regression when upgrading one of these > > systems from squeeze. (Although I don't think Debian kernel > > imag

Bug#705784: Auto-loading lxfb on OLPC XO systems

2013-04-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 03:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [x86 XO systems need a framebuffer driver which udev blacklists] > This will result in a regression when upgrading one of these systems > from squeeze. (Although I don't think Debian kernel images have ever > had complete support for them.) >

Bug#705784: Auto-loading lxfb on OLPC XO systems

2013-04-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
The x86-based OLPC XO systems apparently don't support a VGA-compatible text mode, so text consoles on these systems require the lxfb driver. This was previously built-in to the i386 kernel images, but for reasons explained in in #686528 it was changed to a module. The module can be auto-loaded ba