On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Ollie Lho wrote: > Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > freebios/src/kernel_patches/linux-2.4.17-sis.patch > > freebios/src/kernel_patches/config-2.4.17-sis > > > > These will do the following for you: > > > > - X11 works
but X11 3.3.6a does not work on my k7sem at home ... how weird. It used to. Xconfigurator dies in the call to vm86(). Hmm. Why would it do that? Can I get it not to? is that part of running a video bios that is not there? > > not done yet: > > - power shutdown does not work yet > > Does the ACPI shutdown code in old SiS kernel patch work for > it ?? I think the problem is that it can't find the right part. I'm going to look at this tomorrow. > > - the ide spinup patch is not in. > > > > I do have some modified ide.c code which shoud do the spin-up waiting > pretty well for SiS 630 and few Quantum HDD here. I want to try passing in hda=0,0,0 to see if that works yet. Then we don't need the patch. > > p.s. we have a really neat video of the execution of my dead travelstar. > > It's pretty cool when you drop a railroad rail on it -- the platters all > > shatter into little bits (made of glass). > Any mpeg2 or divx file avaliable ?? soon ... ron
