Simon Shapiro (shimon@simon-shapiro.org)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 01:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
On 15-Apr-99 Jay.Estabrook@digital.com wrote:
>
>>>> Simon Shapiro said:
>>
>> Been struggling with these all day. Metrox Millennium II with 4/8MB
>> of RAM:
>>
>> X11:
>>
>> * The SVGA driver blacks out the screen and goes south on just
>> about
>> any setup. Very same card, very same code work fine in an LX164.
>
> I believe RH 5.2 contained an SVGA that would work on EV6 machines,
> but
> you could certainly try downloading the 3.3.3.1 update RPMs to get
> the
> very latest.
RH 5.2 contains very old XF86 drivers. Definitely not working on the
DS20.
Unless RH does something spetacularly different with the Xfree code, I
do not see the difference between them and the xfree direct binaries.
Either way, both still have the very same problem. As it stands, Linux
on DS20 has no X servers that work :-(
> In addition, there are a couple of tweaks that are recommended, esp.
> for Mill
> II, in the Device Section of XF86Config:
>
> VideoRam 40896 # explicit prevents probing, fill in
yours
> Option "sw_cursor" # HW cursor is suspect
Now, these seem to have helped on the LX164. Thanx.
>> Shutdown:
>>
>> * Seems like the PCI subsystem preserves some states that it tries
>> to
>> be nice to the SRM and restore. Problem is it is too eager and
>> pulls
>> the rug from under the drivers' feet. The result is that either
>> the
>> drivers (typically SCSI) complain bitterly, or the kernel blows
>> its
>> top with illegal instructions and whathaveyou.
>>
>> * If that is survived (typically it leaves the shutdown scripts
>> hanging), the SRM is not at all happy with the results. Me
>> thinks
>> be better resetting the darn machine.
>
> Yes, SRM shutdown/reboot is quite problematic at this time, and is
> high on
> my TODO list.
>
>> * Building a kernel from clean is about 2-3 minutes with -j 8. Much
>> more than 8 and gmake looses it, emitting nonsense errors, etc.
>
> I also would like to understand why the 2.2 kernels changed the way
> parallel
> makes work, as the 2.0 kernels are very happy with just -j. Anyone
> know the
> history behind this?
>
> --Jay++
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Simon Shapiro
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