[PATCH] Configure.help CONFIG_TGA_CONSOLE

Geert Uytterhoeven (geert@geert.cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:12:28 +0200 (MET DST)


Hi Linus,

CONFIG_TGA_CONSOLE is obsoleted by the TGA frame buffer device and no longer
exists.

And yes, there is an X server for TGA (this bogus warning was reintroduced with
2.1.124), it even runs happily on my UDB :-).

--- /home/geert/linux/clean/native-2.1.125/Documentation/Configure.help Sun Oct 11 14:11:18 1998
+++ Configure.help Sun Oct 11 15:30:51 1998
@@ -1196,15 +1196,6 @@
Say Y here to enable support in the dumb serial driver to support
the HUB6 card.

-TGA Console Support
-CONFIG_TGA_CONSOLE
- Many Alpha systems (e.g the Multia) are shipped with a graphics card
- that implements the TGA interface (much like the VGA standard, but
- older TGA adapters are *not* VGA compatible). On such systems, you
- should say Y here so that the TGA driver rather than the standard
- VGA driver is used. Note that, at this time, there is no X server
- for these systems. If unsure, try N.
-
PCI support
CONFIG_PCI
Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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