amd64/87898: Failt to init X: can't open device/io

[Vivek Khera]

On Oct 25, 2005, at 7:25 PM, JoaoBR wrote:

> any version comes wit GENERIC and this changes are correctly  
> adviced by beeing
> set device io and mem in it
>

yes, but how many people replace their custom kernel with GENERIC on  
an upgrade from a minor version?

> we are talking 6.0 I guess and this was an issue from 5.2.1 to 5.3  
> so IMO your
> claim is almost a year too late and this is not exactly an amd64-issue
>

my point was that changes like this should be documented more  
prominently.  either that or 5.3 /really/ should have been called 6.0  
due to the massive changes that went into it.

and no it is not an amd64 issue, but the conversation is here, so I  
comment here.



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