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[Fabrizio Giustina <fgiust@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>        I tried originally basing my patches on the Ubuntu kernel, even using the
> whole of the drm tree from the rc6 one. Whilst there was no problem building
> or booting the kernel, I simply could not get the Intel driver to work as it
> does with rc6. I'm guessing that there was just a module which was causing the
> problem or something similar, but I'd spent so much time by that point that I
> couldn't really investigate further. If you are going to go that route, I
> would recommend trying an install of the 64 bit on a USB drive or something to
> make sure that my kernel modifications work for you, and only then try to port
> them to the standard kernel - there isn't much point spending the time if they
> don't work on your machine in the first place!

well, I'll give a quick try to the patched 32bit kernel, I was able to
apply your patch pretty easily so I am waiting the end of compilation
to see what happens... if it doesn't work at the first test I'll try a
64bit system with your debs as you suggested. I'll keep you updated on
the results.


>        I didn't even try the BIOS mod because I still want to run Windows (
> Visual Pinball is brilliant :)

mh, I never thought that enabling the static switch could break
windows... it shouldn't, also because you can get back to the soft
switch at any time by changing the bios option, isn't it?

Thanks also for the info about the reboot patch, I'll try it soon...
Another related question, I am pretty new to this soft-switch mess and
I didn't really understood a point: do you have any idea on which kind
of magic is bundled in old kernels to makes the switch work? Did
anybody ever tried in finding it and see if the code can be merged to
a newer kernel?

thanks
fabrizio