Thanks Dippy,
The modem problem with this kernel is to be expected - it's only a bare
kernel, no modules for serial IO or PPP. Sounds like we may have a
winner, so I'll go ahead and build the whole thing (actaully build was
running last night - hoping this would be the case).
Stew Benedict
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MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Dippy Black wrote:
> Stew,
> I ran this kernel and had the same results as I had mentioned earlier using
> the benh kernel. No exit X problem at all, fast, runs good.... but no modem.
> Even after running the control center it says it can not open modem.
>
> During the boot process I did note some problems that seem to be only related
> to the lack of a System.map.
>
>
> On Tuesday 26 June 2001 18:26, you wrote:
> > Jeff, Dippy and any other with the lockup problem exiting X, try this
> > kernel:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/sbenedict/vmlinux-aty
> >
> > It's just a bare kernel, but the basics should work (keyboard, mouse, X)
> > I could be imagining it, but it seemed to speedup X a bit here. The down
> > side is it make Xpmac incredibly slow - but the goal is to lose Xpmac
> > eventually.
> >
> > Ian - if you're about, I disabled shared IRQ's on the IDE stuff, you
> > might see if that makes the odd dmesgs go away.
> >
> > Thx,
> > Stew Benedict
>
