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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> Matrox:
> 
> First I tried with the plain Bl2 kernel and insmodded all the 
> fbcons and then matroxfb.  It complained about 18 unresolved 
> symbols, including what looked like 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit versions 
> of the 2 and 4 modules. fb_con, and various other things as well.
> 
> So then I tried the kernel you compiled and instead of complaining 
> it crashed to a black screen.

Bummer.

> I might try this again in a year or two.  Thanks for compiling the 
> kernel and xfbdev.  I hope they are helpful to other people who 
> cannot use Xvesa. I might try the Matrox card in one computer for a 
> while with vesafb (the computer where the S3 cards are not working 
> right with resizecons or links2 svgalib - nothing to lose).

My kernel is duplicating functionality from other kernels, I'm not
so sure it's much more useful than others.

David

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