Hi folks,
I'm writing this mail as I'm discovering ACPI and framebuffer related problems
on my Acer TravelMate 800LCi notebook with Linux 2.6.1-rc1. First, it's good
to see that the synaptics-patches from -mm made it into the mainstream kernel,
they are necessary to make the synaptics work together with XFree here.
However, there is a problem with ACPI: /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance,
which was there in previous versions of the kernel and allowed me to slow the
CPU down in order to save power, disappeared in Linux 2.6.1-rc1. It's simply
not there anymore. Was it replaced? If so, what is the right way to do it by
now?
Secondly, there also is a framebuffer related problem. I have VesaFB in kern
and pass 'vga=791' to it at boot time. However, at the time when it switched
to FB in previous versions of Linux, the screen by now simply stays black.
Is this a known problem and if so is a fix available?
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> Secondly, there also is a framebuffer related problem. I have VesaFB in kern
> and pass 'vga=791' to it at boot time. However, at the time when it switched
> to FB in previous versions of Linux, the screen by now simply stays black.
> Is this a known problem and if so is a fix available?
First try my new patch.
http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
If that doesn't work send me your config file.