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i recently rolled a 2.6.11.10 kernel and am happy with it
for the most part...however, svgalib stopped functioning.
now i receive 'svgalib: mmap error rrr'. i have also tried
updating to svgalib-1.9.21, but that didn't work either.
currently, i have just reverted back to my 2.6.7 kernel
where everything works...but i would like to make the
transition. (for instance, i noticed the pts behaviour is much
better under 2.6.11)
is this just a versioning conflict?
should i just wait for svgalib to support the new kernel?
or have i overlooked something simple?
Originally posted by kodon i recently rolled a 2.6.11.10 kernel and am happy with it
for the most part...however, svgalib stopped functioning.
now i receive 'svgalib: mmap error rrr'.
The linux-wlan-ng problem is because it's kernel dependant, kernel modules are included in the package, so I guess you'll have to recompile those modules along with your kernel. Check that there are two packages, one for 2.4.X kernel and other for 2.6.X but they're kernel specific.
About the svgalib error, I've found a patch for 2.6.9+ kernels, it seems it's a bug in it, that's why you get mmap error rrr.
Here's the patch: http://xentac.net/tur/tags/link/svga...3-debian.patch
I'm quoting the relevant part:
Quote:
#DPATCHLEVEL=1
On Linux kernels >= 2.6.9 and the introduction of flexmmap has revealed
a bug in the return value test code.
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