From: devmorfo@mtu.edu (Evmorfopoulos Dimitris) Subject: 0.99pl8 ATI Ultra, and ethernet drivers Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 19:22:48 GMT
This is a small report of a couple of anoying bugs in the new SLS 1.01.
First of all the serial driver of the kernel. Someone changed it from a good
perfectly working driver in 0.99pl6 to a messy driver in 0.99pl8 for those of
us how have an 8514 compatible video board. The driver is checking all serial
ports, to find what kind of UART they have, and unfortunately when it checks
COM4, whose port address is taken over by 8514 (IBM's inginuity strikes again !)
it changes the color of the screen to yellow !! I have no time to do some serious
kernel hacking, so I just commented out the 85th line of the
/linux/kernel/chr_drv/serial.c file, so that the driver will not check COM4.
Please, someone fix this whenever you can.
Second is the ethernet drivers that come as a patch with the new SLS. They
work great, I love them, but ever since I installed them in the kernel, I lost
the ability to reboot my machine. Something somewhere somehow is not shuting down
the drivers.
That's all for now ...
Dimitris