[armedslack] kernel patches

[Alan Hourihane]

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 15:33 +0100, Jim Hawkins wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 14:25 +0100, Stuart Winter wrote:
> > > OK - I've left only the doublescan/interlace part in the patch,
> > > and upgraded to Linux 2.6.22.3.  The only thing now is that
> > > X isn't working -- attached is the log file.
> > > 
> > > I tried using your xorg.conf and my original one.
> > > 
> > > Do you have any ideas?
> > 
> > That's basically saying that FBDev had to modify the mode from what was
> > passed in.
> > 
> > What does 'fbset' say about the current mode ?
> 
> Stuart ran up a kernel with some debug in for me - yres_virtual is getting 
> modified. Looks like the acornfb driver is increasing it to support ypan 
> for accelerated text scrolling.

Has something changed in acornfb then ? I wouldn't have thought so to
cause this.

Stuart - are you saying that applying the original patch makes things
work ?

Alan.