Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:27:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:27:11 -0500 Received: from mailer3.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.54]:27839 "EHLO mailer3.bham.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:26:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:26:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Cooke X-X-Sender: mpc@pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk To: Alex Davis cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA Northbridge Workaround in 2.4.18 Causing Video Problems In-Reply-To: <20020227180113.61446.qmail@web9204.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Alex Davis wrote: > Sounds like a perfect candidate for a kernel config option. Well - maybe a command line override to not make the (official) via recommended mod. We can always hope that board manufacturers will (eventually) produce bios revs with fixed parameters too. Mark > >> So long as I am running a kernel that includes my hack, there's no > >> problem. My main concern is that the next time that people with a system > >> like mine want to upgrade their distribution, the distribution's kernel > >> will include this workaround; those people (myself included) will then > >> have a miserable time doing the upgrade. > > >Yes, this problem is curious since it seems to work for some/most > >people and, as Alan pointed, not for some others... > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Mark Cooke The views expressed above are mine and are not Systems Programmer necessarily representative of university policy University Of Birmingham URL: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/