On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 03:47, Tim Wright wrote: > managed to get it going :) I had to enable devfs support (it must have > been something different that was broken last time) and enable UNIX98 > TTY support (my xterms weren't working after getting the system to > boot). Now it's all go (apart from ACPI. I'll have to wait for the ACPI > patch to come out...as usual:)
Aaah, replying to myself. Bad form, but have a status update. Everything is now working with 2.6.0-test8. I had to add a kernel parameter acpi=force because I have an old BIOS (on a 2 year old laptop). One thing I've discovered over the years of kernel compiling that I feel I must share is that you must make sure that ALL USB and PCMCIA modules are selected as modules, and not compiled into the kernel. So many hotplug scripts rely on things being modules that many segfaults happen when the drivers are not modules (I've even had kernel oops's as a result of compiling in USB modules under 2.6). -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury "Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change." -- "Collateral Language" John Collins and Ross Glover ed.
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