Ac stable on our doorstep?

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Go=B3aszewski?= wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > > > > > If I'll decide to release Ac now following things will happen:
> > > > > > - kernel will be built from LINUX_2_6_16 branch
> > > > > Seems like a good choice for me - when 2.6.17 / 2.6.18 will be 
> > > > > ready - afair zbyniu is still working on Xen - it could be 
> > > > > released as an update.
> > > > BTW, the last kernel I found working (relatively stable) framebuffer 
> > > > is 2.6.14.7-2...
> > > Which one?
> > matroxfb (afair, I use compiled-in for Matrox G400).
> 
> hhmmm???
> matroxfb: MTRR's turned on
> matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x26214)
> matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xF2000000, mapped to 0xffffc20000200000, size 33554432
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> fb0: MATROX frame buffer device
> 
> [...]
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450 (rev 82)
> [...]
> 
> Works pretty nice.
> $ uname -a
> Linux agata 2.6.17.11-0.10 #1 Sat Sep 9 11:57:58 UTC 2006 x86_64 AMD_Athlon(tm)_64_Processor_3000+ unknown PLD Linux
> 
> I never had problems with that.

Thanks for the info. I'll verify.
Maybe it is specific to my system/configuration.

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