[ltp] Anyone else running 2.6.11 on T41?

Chris Brotherton linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:45:46 -0700


On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:36:18PM +0100, Michael Gaber wrote:
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> Jean Jordaan wrote:
> | Hi Bob
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> |>> http://chefacciamo.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Debian/26114
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> | Thanks! Looks very promising. I'm on Gentoo, though, and I want to
> | stick to what the distro offers. So I'm on:
> |   http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources/
> |   http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gentoo-dev-sources
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> | Chances are your patch set will still apply. I'll let you know.
> |
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> I'm on gentoo, too
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> so if you don't get it to work with the gentoo-dev-sources, perhaps
> you'd like to try the "development-sources" that's the unpatched kernel
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I am running 2.6.11 (gentoo-dev-sources) on a T41 without a problem.  It
sounds like a framebuffer problem to me.  I am using the vesa-tng framebuffer
and here is the line in my grub.conf:

kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda5 ro video=vesafb:ypan,1024x768-24@60

Chris.