Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

From: Paul Nasrat (pauln@truemesh.com)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 10:02:21 EST


On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:02:19PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
 
> Known gotchas.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Certain known bugs are being reported over and over. Here are the
> workarounds.
> - Blank screen after decompressing kernel?
> Make sure your .config has
> CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> A lot of people have discovered that taking their .config from 2.4 and
> running make oldconfig to pick up new options leads to problems, notably
> with CONFIG_VT not being set.

You might want to mention the synaptics touchpad driver/event for
XFree86, as I'm sure that will be a FAQ amongst laptop users

http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

Paul
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