From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:36:28 +0200 (CEST)

Re: Problems with ATI Mach64 Driver...

On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, James A Simmons wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor 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. 
> > 
> > For the drivers in drivers/video, this is already the case. If you say
> > CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=n, the Makefile will be smart.
> 
> Yes I notice taht in the Makefiles. Why is this here. Can we remove
> CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED.

It's not because my video board can do 8, 16, 24 and 32 bpp, that I want to run
text VCs on it in anything above 8 bpp.

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