On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 07:15:00PM -0400, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:28:47PM +0200, Rolf Anders wrote: > > * About every third key I press gets repeated about 100 times and I get > > lots of messages saying "amikeyb: keyboard lost sync" and "amikeyb: > > unknown keyboard communication code 0xff". The keyboard has a > > qwerty-layout and red A's on the Amiga-keys. It worked fine with > > all previous kernels I used (up to 2.2.25). Also, when I connect my > > A3000-keyboard to the A2000 there are no problems. Does anybody know which > > changes between 2.2.25 and 2.4.20 could have caused this? > > That's something I did not test, why would you use the keyboard??? Anyhow, > just tested, works fine, Amiga2000, german keyboard. However, I did see the > same when I use the lyra keyboard adapter and a PS/2 keyboard. I removed > those lines from the kernel, it worked fine then. Maybe I should add that > hack to the kernel-patch?
Which lines did you remove? > > * The kernel ignores the video-setting on the commandline. The following > > worked with 2.2.19: > > > > amiboot-5.6 -k vmlinuz-2.2.19 root=/dev/sda2 \ > > video=amifb:euro72,depth:1,font:PEARL8x8 > > > > Using the same with vmlinuz-2.4.20 I get a PAL screen with more than > > 2 colors. Has the syntax for the video-setting changed or is this a bug in > > the kernel? > > Looking at the amifb driver (btw kernel-source and kernel-patch-m68k are in > the archives, too), the depth options seems to have been removed. More than > 2 colours is better than 2 colours, isn't it? Not really, scrolling is awfully slow on ECS with 16 colors. But okay, since this doesn't seem to be a bug I'll just set the depth with fbset. Or perhaps I can figure out how to set the default depth to 1 and compile the kernel myself. > > * I can't find the driver for the Multiface III serial ports. > > It seems it is completely gone from the kernel source... I dimly remember > something about changes to the serial drivers, seems nobody changed this, so > it was removed. Maybe you can ask on linux-m68k and port the driver from > 2.2.25 to 2.4.20. You have the hardware... Well, I don't know much about kernel programming yet. But if I find some time, I will try to solve this. Thanks for your suggestions! Greetings, Rolf
