Hello, is there anyone that does know, where I can get and how to properly configure a current linux kernel of the testing / sarge distribution for an old IBM 7248 PReP system that does support display on the local screen?
Currently, I have to use kernel 2.2.18 with framebuffer device compiled in for using a crt screen. There are the same errors with displayed colors with any tested X Server of woody and sarge distributions: It displays a dark blue color instead of white color and has more such color errors that makes it nearly impossible to read i.e. any text with xpdf, view pictures correctly and so on the most of the time. And there are errors with the sleep or suspend mode of the Xservers, where the display does not get activated again once the Xserver blanked the screen for a while. Sometimes even the whole computer is not usable then since it becomes impossible to switch to a different virtual console after some time, so I have to switch it off from a hot state and cannot even securely shutdown the machine. I would like to use a newer kernel if possible, but the kernels in the debian distributions for these PReP machines all seem not to be able to use the crt, which is essential for me as this IBM PReP 7248 is the only machine here I can use at all. Compiling a kernel myself also is difficult because of lack of disk space. Free space is about 50 MB - 100 MB on an about 1 GB SCSI disk that sits within the case. With the kernel 2.2.18 that can display something on the crt using fbdev, usually the system hangs at boot time while configuring the build-in ncr53c810 scsi chip after displaying the message: ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking . With a newer kernel 2.6.7 the system does not hang at boot time and initializes the ncr scsi chip in a better way with seemingly only lacking the use of the hard drive led, but it does not display anything on the crt and I can not use a local console or anything that normally gets displayed on the local screen. So I am looking for a new kernel of debian sarge distribution that supports initialising the scsi chip and using the directly connected screen while at the same time I am looking for a Xserver that does the colors correctly and also the suspend blanking awake without hanging the keyboard i/o system and does redisplay the screen contents after some key stroke when it has blanked the screen. Unfortunately, the way it is now, the system is nearly unuseable for direct work. Any help would be appreciated. Alles Gute Helmut H. Franke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
