From: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
  To  : GGI Development <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:47:32 +0200 (CEST)

KGICON <-> 2.3.10 problem (Was: Re: ViRGE: Update announcement)

Hi,

As Teunis writes down here in Chinese- English, it seems there is a mayor
problem with KGICON and the new 2.3.10 kernel. I was unable to track it
down,

Teunis:
> kernel 2.3.10 :)
> [works nice on my machine :]
> S3 ViRGE DX/GX
> I can't think of anything else that matters...
> 
> 1. It doesn't compile
> 	(neither does fbcon-kgi.c)
> 
> 	part of reason:
> 	changed file->f_count++
> 	to      atomic_set(&file->f_count,atomic_read(&file->f_count)+1);
> 	-> suspect 2.3 kernels changed this to make more stable SMP..
> 		Anyone?
> 	Made other changes by commenting out offending lines.  Won't post
> 	diff as I don't trust my changes.  This one looks okay though.
> 	(lines 1547, 1612, CVS as per July 21, 1am)
> 
> 2. Nice black screen when finally fixed to compile...
> 	(atomic read/write added to file structs, some structures changed)
> Grrr.
> 
> 
> Guess I'm back to XFree86. Double-grr.  I have -no- idea why black screen
> other than everything still work.  Try setmon.  Nothing.  Try setting
> graphics modes.  Still nothing.
> 
> Will try to crack blackness.  Nothing in logs...
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Previous driver was working pretty decently on my system so I didn't mess
> with it....