{"id":156,"date":"2007-10-09T23:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/10\/gentoo-sources-2623-feature-changes\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T23:00:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:00:56","slug":"gentoo-sources-2623-feature-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/10\/gentoo-sources-2623-feature-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"gentoo-sources-2.6.23 feature changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linux 2.6.23 was released a few hours ago. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/kernelnewbies.org\/Linux_2_6_23\">kernelnewbies changelog<\/a> lots of details.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all the upstream changes, gentoo-sources-2.6.23 (which will be in portage very soon) has some Gentoo-specific feature changes worth noting:<\/p>\n<p><b>vesafb-tng replaced with uvesafb<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mjanusz.wordpress.com\/\">Michal<\/a> is the author of vesafb-tng, which is popular as it allows you to use higher frequency refresh rates on the VESA framebuffer to stop you getting headaches on CRT monitors.<\/p>\n<p>Michal has always been first to admit that vesafb-tng was an ugly hack and has no future. He&#8217;s now able to refrain from insulting his own coding abilities though, as he has reimplemented the functionality in a way that isn&#8217;t an ugly hack. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.gentoo.org\/~spock\/projects\/uvesafb\/\">uvesafb<\/a> is the replacement. The fundamental difference is that much of the functionality has been moved out of the kernel into userspace, so the kernel doesn&#8217;t have to worry about the ugly details.<\/p>\n<p>The big change on the inside means that it&#8217;s unfortunately not a direct switchover to uvesafb from vesafb-tng. There are installation instructions on the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.gentoo.org\/~spock\/projects\/uvesafb\/\">uvesafb project homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the uvesafb code is so non-ugly that it has been accepted into the upstream Linux kernel for the 2.6.24 release. Thanks Michal!<\/p>\n<p><b>fbsplash replaced by fbcondecor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Michal also authored fbsplash, a kernel patch to allow you to place a pretty splash image behind the framebuffer console.<\/p>\n<p>Due to confusion in the naming, fbsplash has been renamed to fbcondecor (FrameBuffer CONsole DECORations). However, this is just a simple rename, so the migration path is not difficult. See <a href=\"http:\/\/mjanusz.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/29\/fbsplash-naming-changes\/\">Michal&#8217;s blog<\/a> for further details.<\/p>\n<p><b>speakup isn&#8217;t back yet<\/b><\/p>\n<p>speakup is an in-kernel speech synthesizer for blind\/hard-of-sight Linux users.<\/p>\n<p>We dropped speakup for 2.6.22 as it was no longer compatible with the kernel. I was planning to revive it for 2.6.23 but I haven&#8217;t had time, so it will have to wait for 2.6.24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux 2.6.23 was released a few hours ago. See the kernelnewbies changelog lots of details. In addition to all the upstream changes, gentoo-sources-2.6.23 (which will be in portage very soon) has some Gentoo-specific feature changes worth noting: vesafb-tng replaced with uvesafb Michal is the author of vesafb-tng, which is popular as it allows you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}