Linux-Misc Digest #900, Volume #20 Fri, 2 Jul 99 22:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Modem speed ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? ("Steve Pacenka")
Re: Commercial Applications (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Need help setting up SoundBlaster Live ("Bart Janssens")
Re: Modem speed ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Re: Visual programming language for linux? ("Marco Fonseca")
Re: thinkpad 770x modem (Ken Williams)
Re: thinkpad 770x modem (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Visual programming language for linux? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Changing the "From:" line (Chris Mahmood)
Re: shutdown lockup (Holcomb31)
Cross-compile for embedded processor? (Cameron L. Spitzer)
RedHat 6.0 hangs during PPP ("Jonathan K. Shay")
Re: Smbmount problem. (Adrian Hands)
Re: booting linux from NT bootloader...don't work (Reinhard Karcher)
Re: Linux Presentation Software (Greg Comeau)
Help Compiling a SMP Kernel w/o 32MB MEM limit (asldjf)
Re: GNOME & E (coffee)
Re: Real Audio Play for RH 6.0 (coffee)
Re: Where can I get free Linux CD? ("Dennis")
Re: NFS mount problem (Adrian Hands)
Re: LILO question, WIN98 dual boot. (Coy A Hile)
Re: nfsssvc: Function not implemented (Thomas Cameron)
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem speed
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 00:07:33 +0000
Thanks for th hint with the IRQ, unfortunately I don't think that was it. I
looked at the documentation concerning the modem, looked at the port settings
in Winwoze and everything is supposedly set to the default, I stoped short of
opening the computer to verify that that is true. Anyway, default is COM 2 with
IRQ3. I am using ttyS1 device which alos upposedly uses COM2 and IRQ3, thus
things on the Linux side and the Windoze side should be about the same.
Any other inf out there?
Thanks
Kihwan Kwon wrote:
> I guess it's irq conflict.
> I had the same problem and I checked irq for modem in windows 95 and
> put this command "setserial /dev/modem irq 11" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, where
>
> 11 was irq for modem in windows 95.
> I hope it helps.
>
> "Robert J. Schweikert" wrote:
>
> > It appears, I am very certain that my connection to my ISP is a whole
> > lot slower when using Linux when compared to the Windows NT side of my
> > computer. Dis I mess up with the set-up or are there any tricks I should
> > be aware of to speed things up?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > --
> > Robert Schweikert
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Robert Schweikert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Steve Pacenka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop?
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:14:59 -0400
Serban-Mihai Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The Inspiron line of laptops is meant to be the bleeding edge product;
> every new toy (DVD, PIII etc.) gets almost immediately included in the
> Inspiron machine. Therefore, the chance to have unsupported hw is much
> bigger than for the Latitude line.
>
> Furthermore, you shouldn't assume that all are alike. Philipp says there
> is no problem with his I3200 video card. However, the new I3500 makes
> use of a dreaded Neomagic MagicMedia chipset; not only it's not
> supported by the XBF_ servers for Neomagic (you have to get a patched X
> server and loose all the acceleration) but it has also some unsupported
> hw for the sound system. AFAIK, for the time being there is no way for
> making the sound work.
>
> Yes, Dell makes well engineered laptops. But if you want to run Linux on
> them, you have either to pick exactly the model somebody else claims to
> work or to post the hardware details about the laptop you want to
> choose. Otherwise, you might be dissapointed.
I will agree strongly with "well engineered." My Inspiron 3000 has been
rugged, quiet, and perfectly reliable.
Regarding bleeding edge, that problem also exists with other laptop
manufacturers. The hardware is not built from commodity parts as are many
desktops, and worse there is considerable pressure to pack in more features,
longer battery life, lighter weight, ... thus lots of fiddling with the
internal architecture. The whole mainstream laptop industry could be called
bleeding edge. PCMCIA cards are another constant challenge to keep up with.
Nevertheless the Linux community rises to the occasion. I was recently
amazed at how little work it took to make my Inspiron run Linux RH6 with an
external SCSI hard drive holding the root directory. Didn't have to
recompile anything, and RH's auto configuration figured out all of the
hardware except for sound. (I did have to get a patched installer diskette
to get going, since the PCMCIA controller chip was not detected correctly.
Easy to find that patch, because Linux people share their tribulations and
triumphs :^) .)
Given the number of Inspirons that Dell sells, and the number of people
trying to make Linux work on them, I would not hesitate to buy one to use
with Linux. So maybe you can't run the most accelerated X server today, and
maybe the sound will require fiddling. Workarounds will appear early and in
a couple of months after a new model is around there will inevitably be
fuller support from newer kernels and drivers.
-- SP
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commercial Applications
Date: 02 Jul 1999 14:26:04 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linuxlist/linuxlist/linuxlist.html
is a good start. As for who's developing Oracle, er...that would be
Oracle.
-ckm
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From: "Bart Janssens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need help setting up SoundBlaster Live
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 02:39:27 +0200
Ronald Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, I have downloaded the required driver from
> Creative, and have installed it, had it working,
> but now nothing.
I used this to load the sblive module:
modprobe soundcore
insmod -f sblive
I commented out the stuff that loads sound.o in the rc.sysinit file, and
just added the 2 lines above to the rc.local file.
regards,
Bart Janssens
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem speed
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 00:11:53 +0000
I did set the Baude rate to 56600 in the script that executes the ppp command.
Any additional info is appreciated.
Robert
Bill Unruh wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert J. Schweikert"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >It appears, I am very certain that my connection to my ISP is a whole
> >lot slower when using Linux when compared to the Windows NT side of my
> >computer. Dis I mess up with the set-up or are there any tricks I should
> >be aware of to speed things up?
>
> Did you give ppp a valid modem speed to use? The default is 9600 Bd.
> Thus put say 57600 or more probably 115200 into /etc/ppp/options, or on
> the pppd command line
--
Robert Schweikert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Marco Fonseca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Visual programming language for linux?
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:08:22 -0400
Check out this article. It answered all my questions about visual
programming in Linux (and I think I know *exactly* what you mean by *visual*
:-)).
http://www.visual-developer.com/coverstory/cs.cfm
H.Eitjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does there exist a Visual language for linux. Like there is visual C or
> visual basic for MS-windows?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Re: thinkpad 770x modem
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 00:15:48 GMT
In article <7licbq$mrm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone got any hints as to how to get the modem
>to work under RH 5.1 ????
If you mean the internal one, its probably a winmodem. Its a winmodem on the
570's and 600's, so I assume its the same on yours, so your out of luck.
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: thinkpad 770x modem
Date: 02 Jul 1999 14:28:11 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
check http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ ,
it may be a winmodem.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Visual programming language for linux?
Date: 02 Jul 1999 14:33:16 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
not sure what you need to do, but check out Tk (Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk,
etc). There's a package called 'Visual Tk' that seems like the
visual basic of the linux/unix world...I guess, I've never really
seen Visual Basic and never want to.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Changing the "From:" line
Date: 02 Jul 1999 14:38:18 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is this 'the' D. Chalmers, of FARGonaut fame? If so, welcome
aboard! If not, welcome aboard anyway....
-ckm
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From: Holcomb31 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown lockup
Date: 2 Jul 1999 22:30:46 GMT
Ted Hand wrote:
>
> Have installed RH 6.0...When I shutdown: shutdown -h now
> all servers and processes stop, looks like a normal shutdown, but at the
end
> the screen fills with random numbers/charcters and computer locks
> ups....only a reset will get it back.....
>
> any help...
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Ted Hand
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I get the same thing when I shutdown. I have gnome loaded at startup and
it doesn't matter whether I use shutdown -h now from the terminal emulator
or pick shutdown from the options on the gnome logon screen. Everything
seems to shutdown fine but then it appears the kernel gets a command it
can't handle and it puts out what looks like a dump and then hangs. Have
you discovered the cure for this yet? JH
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Cross-compile for embedded processor?
Date: 3 Jul 1999 00:21:57 GMT
I've got an embedded microprocessor project where I'll need to generate
my own diagnostic suite. I've been through the HOWTOs, but didn't
find anything about generating ROMmable code.
In the past, I've built GCC as a cross-compiler to generate application
code (ELF executables) to be invoked by a different unix than the one
where GCC was run, and it worked.
And of course I've built a working kernel on the host that would
run it.
But now I'm stuck configuring GCC to compile down to an "absolute"
or "kernel" image that I can make S-records (or whatever) out of and
send to a PROM programmer. Basically, I want to build ROMmable
code for my little microprocessor with GCC and its friends (another spoiled
Linux brat!), but don't know where to look for how to set GCC up that way.
Building a crosscompiler requires certain libraries and startup code
I don't have.
Pointers to existing docs would be most appreciated.
Cameron
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From: "Jonathan K. Shay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.0 hangs during PPP
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:34:31 -0400
Help! I'm having difficulty staying online (my phone connection, not a
computer hardware issue) - can someone help me with this one??
I've got RedHat 6.0 installed, and everytime I complete a PPP connection
to my ISP, I'm unable to open any programs (Netscape, File Manager,
Terminal Window... nothing). As soon as I disconnect, everything seems
to be back to normal. This is Gnome running with Enlightenment.
On a separate issue, how do I go about tricking Linux into seeing my
LS-120 internal. Is it possible??
Please cc: reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance.
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Smbmount problem.
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 21:17:15 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root wrote:
>
> Habib wrote:
>
> > I use Red Hat 5.2, and have just upgraded from the 2.0.37 kernel, to
> > the 2.2.9 kernel. Ever since I have upgraded my smbmount does not
> > work. An error is given saying:
> >
> > mount error: Invalid argument.
> > Please look at smbmount's man page for possible reasons.
> >
> > The command I type is smbmount //wincomp/c /mnt/localdir -c
> > mylinuxservername
> > This is the command that I have always been using. I have tried
> > upgrading samba to various versions, and right now I am using
> > samba-2.0.4b-19990519. I am also sure that the smb filesystem is
> > compiled into my kernel since I recopmiled my kernel a 2nd time just to
> > make sure. Any help that is given will be appreciated.
>
> this is the format i use:
>
> smbmount //cs197312-b/music1 lovelace -c 'mount /mnt/music1'
>
> -c is a command. i'm not sure why you would use your server name as an
> argument.
At some point the syntax must've changed because I used to do this:
$ smbmount "//$machine_name/c" $mount_point -I $host -U "$username" -P
"$password"
then I had to change to this:
$ smbmount "//$machine_name/c" "$password" -I $host -c "mount
$mount_point"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reinhard Karcher)
Date: 02 Jul 99 17:08:00 GMT
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: booting linux from NT bootloader...don't work
Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i just installed redhat 60 on my pc
>i have two harddisk first is /dev/sda contains winNT on a FAT partition and
>two NTFS formatted partitions (1gb, 2x1.5gb)
>second (primary on ide) is /dev/hda with small FAT (200mb) hda1 conatins
>win95 and hda2 (200mb) with the linux root partition
>(therefore its within the first 1024 sectors, right)
>both as primary partitions an extended contains a swap part. and /usr as
>well as another two FAT partions (2x2gb)
>NT boots win95 fine and i now added the linux entry to boot.ini after
>copying the linux bootsector to sda1 (the one nt boots from)
>(dd if=/dev/hda2 of=bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1
>boot.ini:
>c:\bootsect.lin=linux)
Hi,
did you run lilo?
Post lilo.conf.
Reinhard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Comeau)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Linux Presentation Software
Date: 2 Jul 1999 21:17:45 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Assalone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I think StarOffice has a component similar to Micosoft PowerPoint
Ok, I'll try to check that out. In the meantime, I didn't want
something similar to PP per se. Actually I would expect it to be similar
just given the past art, but was more interested in it being able to
literally read (and write too) .PPT files.
- Greg
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Subject: Help Compiling a SMP Kernel w/o 32MB MEM limit
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (asldjf)
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 01:29:09 GMT
Hi,
I need to increase the memory dedicated to sybase ase. I have 1GB of ram and
would like to give at least half of it to sybase. So far all I can find is a
document saying to change the values of
#define _SHM_IDX_BITS to 19
#define _SHM_ID_BITS to 5
in the file .../linux/include/asm/shmparam.h
and in the file .../linux/include/asm/page.h change the value
#define __PAGE_OFFSET (0xC0000000) to (0x80000000)
Then give yourself swap space the size of amount of memory you would like to
share. Then recompile the kernel.
So after playing with linux for a few years now I have no choice but to build a
kernel. I have the lastest source 2.2.10 and seem to have everything
configured correctly.
The problem is, the kernel won't boot. lilo returns no problems, and when I
reboot I get to uncompressing kernel line and the computer automaticly reboots.
What am I missing? Did changing those files cause the problem? Is there any
other way around this linux only allowing 32MB of shared memory?
I can use any help you all may be able to provide. Web pages, etc... All I
seem to run into searching the web is the standard kernel HOWTO. Even if is
isn't a HOWTO it's based off of the HOWTO :)
I've already looked at
http://www.oconnell.net/cgi-bin/ez_view.pl?20+/var/www/digital-earth/Sybase_FAQ
/Q9.25.html+1+ff0000+memory#1b
but it seems to be missing something.
Thanks so much.
shane
Here is some more data.
2 400MHz proc
1GB 100MHz ram
Distro = RH6
All programs are within a month of being current.
ASUS p2b board
Lilo
Kernel = 2.2.10
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: GNOME & E
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:21:39 -0400
Leonard Evens wrote:
>
> John Assalone wrote:
>
> > I went through the Enlightenment config a whole bunch of times, but
> > nothing worked. Someone told me to check the "new popups get keyboard
> > focus", but i had already done this. I'm not talking about new windows,
> > but about ones that I raise from the task list...I guess i'm asking how
> > to configure the task-list's properties.
> If I understand your question properly, I have explored a closely
> related question. I think there is no way to do what you want.
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
Ok, I think I figured it out. Tell me if this works for you.
Right click on a minimized window and choose show/hide. Then click on
the minimized icon. Now you can minimize it and bring it up with one
click.
BTW -- Sent the new link to realplayerG2 to you this afternoon. Sorry
for the mixup.
--
* I no longer accept mail from Hotmail because of spam *
coffee at indy dot net * ICQ 1614986
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real Audio Play for RH 6.0
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:39:41 -0400
Ralph Blach wrote:
>
> coffee,
>
> in the down load page, linux 5.x is only specified. Did yo down load this
> one?
>
> also, how did you download esd sound ?
>
> Chip
Ok, made a mistake in the url for it. Really! Sorry!
http://proforma.real.com/mario/player/player.html?s=1&language=English&speed=Pentium&dc=71630629&src=&name=John+Hopkins&email=john%40aol.com&country=US&platform=Red+Hat+5.2%2F6.0&connection=56+kbps+modem&product=¬ices=Yes
This is the link you need to grab realplayerG2. Atleast this is the link
that I found. Dont you get the feeling that they are not really
interested in linux? <grin>.
Oh, ESD sound. I didnt download it. As far as I have found out its the
sound system for gnome. You can see if its running by typeing in:
fuser -v /dev/dsp
It will list it there. Hopefully it willnot. Then you dont have to go
thru the hassle of killing it all the time.
--
* I no longer accept mail from Hotmail because of spam *
coffee at indy dot net * ICQ 1614986
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From: "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Where can I get free Linux CD?
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:14:17 -0500
Look around in your area for Linux Awareness Day ( or
something like that ) , I just gave a guy 20 CDR's to burn ,
and give away to interested parties . I myself spent $4 at
Linuxmall.com, ( Redhat6 , and Mandrake 6 ) .With shipping it
came to about $8 .
Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7lgt6r$avp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
writes:
>
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Go to www.linuxmall.com. They have CDs for $1.89 plus
shipping
>
> >Or do what I did. Download the ISO image, and burn a CD.
>
> Which costs much more. Even the blank CDRom is worth about
$1, and your
> CDRom writer will wear out faster , and your time is
probably worth at
> least minimum wage, in which case the above has cost far far
more than
> $2.
>
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: NFS mount problem
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 21:31:20 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
> I also made sure that my hosts.allow and hosts.deny files don't have any
> entries in them, so any machine should be allowed to make rpc calls, as
> documented in the man pages. In addition, at some point I have tried
> all of these other lines in my exports file, one at a time:
(snip)
man hosts.allow says:
access control can be turned off by providing no access control files.
I would try putting ALL:ALL in hosts.allow, temporarily, to test.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Coy A Hile)
Subject: Re: LILO question, WIN98 dual boot.
Date: 2 Jul 1999 21:58:35 -0400
In article <7lj1fo$58c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Charles Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Strange - I've always thought an extended partition had to
>be be in one of the "slots" hda1 through hda4. Then the
>logical partitions would be numbered hda5, hda6, etc.
>
>
>
>
I had always seen the same thing as well....
Coy
--
Coy Hile
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Theirs not to reason why; theirs but to do...."
Tennyson, "Charge of the Light Brigade"
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From: Thomas Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network
Subject: Re: nfsssvc: Function not implemented
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:18:54 -0500
Hey -
You need to go to Code Maturity Level Options, and say Yes to "Prompt
for development...." Then go to Network File Systems, and say Yes to
"NFS Server Support." This option is not available unless you choose
the experimental support. Technically, the NFS server in RH6 (the
kernel space on, not the user space one) is still experimental. That's
why you need to do this.
Hope this helps, let me know if you need any help.
Regards,
Thomas Cameron, CNE, MCP, MCT
Three-Sixteen Technical Services, Inc.
> I am testing the 2.2.10 kernel on a K62-350 system (original
> 2.2.5-15). During boot, I get the message:
>
> Starting NFS daemon [FAILED]
> nfssvc: Function not implemented
>
> Which option do I need to use in the menu of `make xconfig` to
> fix that error? I tried a few but no dice. Everything else
> boots fine.
>
> I'd appreciate any pointers.
>
> Paul
>
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