Problems with updated kernel [OldWorld]

[Andrew]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 06:02, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Wednesday 2 March 2005 01:13, Andrew wrote:
> >  I've installed the available yum updates and I am very pleased so
> > far as the system fell 'faster' and more responsive compared to 2.6.8
> > and 2.6.9. (Responsiveness is ranked very high on my OS-o-meter
> > appreciation list) Good job ;)
> >
> >  I have spotted a couple [minor] issues so far. Perfection is just a
> > dream after all. One is about atyfb and the other about the bmac
> > ethernet adapter.
> >
> > 1- Thus X11 is working super fine, there is a bad bug in the consoles.
> >  The screen show a pair of distorted column. The letters are 'buzzing'
> >  The first (left most) column is located on 'n)' of
> >  'Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 (orion)' and the second is located 10 letters
> >  to the right. tty1 does print debug stuffs:
> >
> > debug atyfb: Mach64 non-shadow register values:
> > debug atyfb: 0x2000:  007F00A3 002C0083 02FF031F 00230300
> > debug atyfb: 0x2010:  023C0000 20000000 00000002 0B000200
> > debug atyfb: 0x2020:  00280919 02C00679 00000000 92100000
> > debug atyfb: 0x2030:  00000000 00000031 00000000 00000000
> > debug atyfb: 0x2040:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > debug atyfb: 0x2050:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > debug atyfb: 0x2060:  00000000 AAAAAA0F 000BFE00 02F00000
> > debug atyfb: 0x2070:  00300000 00000000 00003720 00000040
> > debug atyfb: 0x2080:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > debug atyfb: 0x2090:  00A63003 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > debug atyfb: 0x20A0:  7B23A050 00000000 00000000 25010001
> > debug atyfb: 0x20B0:  004215B9 00010000 00010000 00000000
> > debug atyfb: 0x20C0:  00FF0010 86010182 00000000 00000000
> > debug atyfb: 0x20D0:  00000100 00000000 00000000 00002082
> > debug atyfb: 0x20E0:  9A004754 0000001D 00000000 00000000
> > debug atyfb: 0x20F0:  00000000 00000018 800004F8 00000000
> >
> > debug atyfb: Mach64 PLL register values:
> > debug atyfb: 0x00:  ADD52414 A80341B5 8E82C501 A61B0000
> > debug atyfb: 0x10:  ADD52414 A80341B5 8E82C501 A61B0000
> > debug atyfb: 0x20:  ADD52414 A80341B5 8E82C501 A61B0000
> > debug atyfb: 0x30:  ADD52414 A80341B5 8E82C501 A61B0000
> >
> >  My first guess is that i should set another driver than 'atyfb'
> >  in bootx. Im not sure the one I should use. Suggestions?
> >
> > NOTE: I've set XF86Config to use 'mach64_accel' and its fine.
> >
> Can't comment on this one...
> 
> > 2- bmac ethernet card. I just had to do /sbin/modprobe bmac' then
> > activate the eth0 interface the usual way. I wrote a shell script that
> > does just that for me with a single command input.
> >
> A few days ago, Owen mentioned the following regarding bmac being a module 
> now:
> 
> Add the line
> alias eth0 bmac
> 
> in /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
> I think you won't need your shell script after that anymore. Just make sure 
> your network interface is set to be configured at boot time.

Thanks. I'll keep using the script because its just a 5 digit command to
type instead of the regular 24-ish strokes. :)