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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

nOn Thu, 7 Dec 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Now I am back at the dialed-in computer because when I tried to use xfbdev
> > (rivafb) from vt2 and then switch back to vt1 the screen went funny
> > colors and I tried to exit and got
> > 'Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> > 00000000'  etc., and now I can switch VTs but not type anything onscreen.
> > Cold reboot
>
> That has happened to me as well with xfbdev on atyfb. Could be an
> xfbdev bug or my own fault (since I compiled xfbdev and made other
> mistakes, such as linking it against libm5).

I will test with aty128fb.  I think matroxfb behaves properly with
xfbdev. Switching vts (without xfbdev) with vesafb and matrox crashes.  Do 
you want to recompile xfbdev and test again?

> > What do I change in my 2.4.31 kernel so the ipchains firewall business
> > will work and how much bigger does it make the kernel (will it still fit
> > on floppy disk?)?  (I will also add the three nfs drivers in the kernel).
>
> I have never used firewall. You should probably just enable all of the
> network firewall options. Here is bzimage.big for reference:
>
> CONFIG_PACKET=y
> CONFIG_NETLINK=y
> CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
> CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m
> CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
> CONFIG_FILTER=y
> CONFIG_UNIX=y
> CONFIG_INET=y
> CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
> # CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set
> # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
> CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
> # CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_NETLINK is not set
> CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y
> CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y

Steven said to try with just FIREWALL, IP_FIREWALL and IP_MASQUERADE.

> David

Sindi