From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:23:40 +0000

External symbols for kgicon module (was: Re: Problems with ATI Mach64 Driver...)

James A Simmons wrote:
> 
> >       OK, I agree.  I think the best solution is to turn the damn cfbx
> > code into modules that are compiled and linked intelligently by the kernel
> > according to a set of dependencies.  It is absurd to have the user have to
> > figure out the dependencies themselves.
> >
> I agree to. Thats what I'm aiming for with my system. If you pick say a
> Matrox Millenium setup then it sets up the dependecies for you. Only a few
> expects exist like the S3 set where the use will have to pick a ramdac
> and/or clock. For those types of cards the RAMDAC, clock list will
> magically appear.

We have a related problem too: Due to Andrews textmode hack,
if you compile the kernel with fbcon-vga as a module you must have
this module inserted to use kgicon. This is totally unacceptable!

//Marcus
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