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- From: heiney@wsl.dec.com (Bob Heiney)
- Subject: Re: pm graphics device driver under Ultrix 4.2A?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.200152.684@PA.dec.com>
- Keywords: ultrix 4.2 pm graphics
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- Organization: Western Software Lab
- References: <Bs44EE.EJM@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 20:01:52 GMT
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- In article <Bs44EE.EJM@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> shewchun@boomer.waterloo.edu (Dave Shewchun) writes:
- >We recently upgraded our DS3100 from Ultrix 4.1 to Ultrix 4.2A. Under
- >4.1 we were using the "pm" graphics device driver. However, when I put
- >this device in the kernel config file for 4.2A, the kernel build fails
- >at link time (can't find pmvinit and pmdriver). Has this driver been
- >replaced by something, or am I doing something wrong?
- >
-
- The graphics driver changed between 4.1 and 4.2. Generate a new kernel config
- file using doconfig(8) or sizer(8). As I recall,
- "device pm0 at ibus? vector <xxx>" becomes "device fb0 at ibus? vector fbint",
- and you must add "pseudo-device ws".
-
- /Bob
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- Bob Heiney
- Technical Consultant
- Digital Equipment Corporation, US Desktop Sales, Palo Alto, CA
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