Duncan Laurie wrote: > You will need a patched kernel to get a few things working right. One > of those things is reboot because the RaQs do not have a standard PC > BIOS. If you are interested I have some RH8 kernel RPMS that have been > modified to add cobalt support. The binarys are here: > > http://cobalt.iceblink.org/redhat/binary/ > > kernel-cobalt-III-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm # for RaQ 3, RaQ 4, Qube 3 > kernel-cobalt-V-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm # for RaQ XTR, RaQ 550 > > This kernel includes the LCD driver necessary for the panel-utils > package to work, but you will need to install the lcd device first: > > mknod /dev/lcd c 10 156
Good to see you supporting us on this list, Duncan. I'd been told in the past that the Red Hat 2.4 series kernels required a reburn of the RaQ bios to work. Is this a step you've left out, or is it just not true? Does the mknod command only have to be run once, or must it be in some kind of startup script? > There is more information on how these kernels were built as well as the > required kernel patches available here: > > http://cobalt.iceblink.org/redhat/build/readme.build Thanks for this documentation as well. Is there a patching step missing, or again, is this just something I don't understand well? I haven't built kernels since early 1995, and I'm a bit rusty. Thanks for any clarifications you can give us (or me, anyway <smile>). Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, nobaloney.net, P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 US Internet & Unix/Linux/Sun/Cobalt Consulting +1 909 778-9980 Our jblists address used on lists is for list email only To contact us offlist: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
