Bug 95494 – vesafb-tng in hb-install-amd64-bootloader.xml

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Vasiliy 'Vas' Golubev 2005-06-08 13:37:38 UTC]

According to this document user able to choose vesafb-tng while kernel 
configuring, but it is a mistake. Vesafb-tng doesn't work on AMD64 (at least at 
present) and there is no option 'vesafb-tng' among options.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) 2005-06-09 06:52:59 UTC]

Created attachment 60903 [details, diff]
amd64_handbook_patch.diff

wolf31o2-work from #gentoo-dev and dang from #gentoo-amd64 confirm this (i
don't have an amd64)

this should fix the problem, but someone from amd64 should probably take a look
at the patch

[Comment 2 Kfir Ozer 2005-06-09 07:12:51 UTC]

but on amd64 i can't choose vesa-tng on menuconfig!

emerge info
-----------
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.11-gentoo-r10 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.8
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks keeptemp keepwork sandbox sfperms strict userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aalib acpi alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bidi
bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers
directfb dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode esd fam fbcon font-server foomaticdb
fortran ftp gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imagemagick imlib
ipv6 ithreads java javascript jikes joystick jp2 jpeg ldap lesstif libwww live
lzw lzw-tiff mbox mime mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nvidia ogg
oggvorbis opengl openssl oscar oss pam perl png python qt quicktime readline
scanner sdl slang sndfile sox ssl tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd videos vorbis
xinerama xinetd xml2 xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 3 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) 2005-06-09 07:47:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> but on amd64 i can't choose vesa-tng on menuconfig!

thats why the patch removes all references to it in the amd64 handbook

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-06-09 10:28:44 UTC]

Patch looks good...

[Comment 5 Vasiliy 'Vas' Golubev 2005-06-09 11:31:04 UTC]

Yes, thanks.
But what about using 2.4 kernel on amd64: "
...(<c>vesafb</c> for 2.6 kernels, or <c>vesa</c> for 2.4 kernels)..."?
Does the 2.4 kernel is supported for amd64?

[Comment 6 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-06-10 11:38:51 UTC]

Jonathan: your patch left an </tr> sitting without having a <tr> to begin with.
But other than that: committed to CVS.