Re: 2.2pre4 success

[Jonathan Vafai <jjv200 acf2 nyu edu>]

On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 05:32:11PM -0500, Jon Simantov wrote:
> Well, looks like 2.2pre4 works on my AlphaStation 200. All I had to do is
> make a small change (described in my previous post to the list). The
> system is a newly-installed Debian 2.1 (slink) machine; I have yet to
> download the fbcon tools (and others) required to take full advantage of
> this kernel, but it all looks good so far.
> 
> And they were right...the penguin logo *is* spiffy. And the console is
> certainly faster than with the 2.0 series' TGA driver. Very cool.


There is a bit of a bug in the TGA fb console, when inserting characters
in the middle of a line, everything slows to a crawl.  I notice this
most in programs like ncftp when I try to view a long list of files, although
it does happen at the command prompt..

It is not *that* big deal and I have no idea how to fix such a thing, but
i figured I'd mention it.  

--Jon