Help debug latest rawhide images

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Feb 13 01:46:28 UTC 2009


On Thursday, February 12 2009, Chris Ball said:
>    > Well, I'll keep going, but I'm having some pretty bad luck.  First
>    > I tried making an SD card.  It gets to plymouth okay, which exposes
>    > a nice example of the console corruption we're seeing:
> 
> We can fix this with "fbset -xres 1200 -yres 900 -vxres 1200 -vyres 900
> --timings 17460 24 8 4 5 8 3 -depth 16".  We shouldn't have to, though,
> and the reason we do is that the Rawhide kernel is (unsurprisingly)
> built without CONFIG_OLPC=y.
> 
> Kyle suggested (in seriousness, I think) that we could turn on
> CONFIG_OLPC=y for the Fedora i586 kernel, as long as it doesn't break
> other machines.  Andres Salomon says it shouldn't, so that looks like
> the plan of attack:

CONFIG_OLPC=y is already set in config-x86-generic, so it should be
getting set (and it was in F10).  And actually, it's set in the i586
built config from grabbing the package and looking

Jeremy




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