2.1.107 frame buffer _badly_ broken

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:16:09 -0500


i586 UP, egcs-19980621, binutils-2.9.1.0.6

My graphics card is identified as:

Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 (rev 0).
Medium devsel.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000008].

Whatever I gave to vga=ask, either I saw something (mostly CRC breakage
when booting) or I got very nice boot messages in tasteful black on a nice
black background. The boot froze everytime before finishing the first
screenful, but seemingly not with a checksum error with black screen
(ctrl-alt-del worked). Got rid of framebuffer stuff, boots and runs OK up
to here. Just one flicker when booting (switching to graphics mode, or
trying to?).

The broken .configure follows, maybe somebody can make something out of it.

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y
CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m
CONFIG_MD_STRIPED=m
CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING=m
CONFIG_MD_RAID5=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PACKET=m
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_IPV6=m
CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64=y
CONFIG_IPV6_NO_PB=y
CONFIG_IPX=m
CONFIG_IPX_INTERN=y
CONFIG_SPX=m
CONFIG_ATALK=m
CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CBQ=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CSZ=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_PRIO=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_RED=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_SFQ=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TEQL=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TBF=m
CONFIG_NET_QOS=y
CONFIG_NET_ESTIMATOR=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_U32=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP6=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE=y
CONFIG_SCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA_HAVE_PEDANTIC=2
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_ETHERTAP=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL3=m
CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
CONFIG_NE2000=m
CONFIG_NET_EISA=y
CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO100=m
CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=m
CONFIG_PLIP=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_SLIP=m
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
CONFIG_SHAPER=m
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_LOCKD=m
CONFIG_CODA_FS=m
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=m
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB_VGA=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_FBCON_MFB=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_VGA=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE=m
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m
CONFIG_NVRAM=m
CONFIG_JOYSTICK=m
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
CONFIG_PROFILE=y
CONFIG_PROFILE_SHIFT=2
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

-- 
Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Viņa del Mar, Chile                               +56 32 672616

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