On 3/9/06, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-09 09:51]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# putlcd "test" "test"
> Writing LCD: No such device
And this is the putlcd from CoLo?
> I'm using a custom kernel, 2.4.31 with the patches (including LCD patch)
> from: http://www.*colo*nel-panic.org/*cobalt*-mips/
Which LCD patch? I cannot find anything in the 2.4 patches on that
page.
The way the LCD is controlled changed at some point. This is a
wild guess, but it seems that that your kernel is using the old
method. Does the tool from
http://people.debian.org/~pm/mips-cobalt/lcdutils-0.2.tar.gz
work?
BTW, why don't you just use a Debian kernel? (You can use 2.6 if
2.4.27 is too old for you.)
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
You know, I thought it was the colo putlcd I was using, but I redownloaded it just to be sure, and it seems to work. It's the lcdutils one that doesn't work. Thanks!
Apparently there wasn't an lcd patch in colonel-panic's patchset, for some reason I thought there was.
There was something in the 2.4 kernel that was missing that I needed, so I just compiled my own. I've always used custom kernels (comes from running LFS systems probably), and I wasn't comfortable putting the server into production until I knew I'd be able to recompile my kernel if need be.
All is well, thanks again!
-Ryan
--
I have often wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong. -- H.P. Lovecraft
