Yes it was, and thanks for that data point.  I'm more likely to try it on beowulf, but sounds like there are no major low-level subsystem incompatibilities.
--Tim

    On Friday, January 31, 2020, 2:20:41 AM UTC, tempforever <dev1@???> wrote:  

I have no idea whether it will help your particular problem, but I can
report that I've successfully built and run run 5.4 on ascii (if that
was a question).

Tim Wallace via Dng wrote:
> I have played with the CMDLINE stuff, and blacklisting, to no avail.  I wonder if compiling a 5.4 kernel would solve my graphics problem, and work with beowulf and/or asci?

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