On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 05:43:17PM +0100, Detlev Zundel wrote: > Ah - this reminds me - the explanation of "hiding" the online help for > the fdisk `s' command seems completely besides the point to me. Why > shouldn't we then hide the man-page for `rm' or other potential > dangerous things?? Is the consensus of this list that this is ok or > should I file a bug report against fdisk?
It'll be fixed in potato. Eric Delaunay is working on it. > > Ok, I have two remaining problems: > > The 2.0.34 kernel initialized the text mode correctly as opposed to > the 2.2.13 kernel. The difference can be seen in the log messages: > > 2.0.34 kernel: > Dec 9 22:37:23 poc kernel: Console: 16 point font, 864 scans > Dec 9 22:37:23 poc kernel: Console: mono SUN 128x54, 1 virtual console (max > 63) > > 2.2.13 kernel: > Dec 14 12:55:12 poc kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > > How can I get the new kernel to do the same initialization? The > difference for me is that I cannot see the leftmost 4 characters on > each line... (and the Sun btw supports no color) Which kernel options did you select for the Sparc console fonts support ? > The other problem is to get X running - As the IPC uses the BWtwo > framebuffer I thought I could fix it by applying the patch from the > Ultralinux FAQ to the kernel but the patch is already in there. So > I'll better show how X fails: > > > PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > > I have the xfonts-pex package installed which owns a file > `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX/Roman_M.phont'. Unfortunately I cannot > strace the X server as strace dies like this: > > open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/etc/X11/Xserver", O_RDONLY) = 3 > syscall: unknown syscall trap 9c23a018 e0002cc0 Are you running slink or potato ? What's the content of /etc/X11/Xserver and could you retry the strace as root ? Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)