Re: urgent

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Rogers
It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Or Linus about a year. I'm not sure the OP could absorb that much info that quickly. Not to mention that Linus' first kernel wasn't what we know today. It ran a 386, and was more an implmentation of

Re: Problem installing the nouveau driver

2010-06-21 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 18:04 -0500, al...@verizon.net wrote: I bzip2'ed the file, so let's see if 11702 bytes can now sneak below the 50 KB limit :). BTW, 'config' is for a system of this nature: ASUS P5E-VM HDMI, intel Core2Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz. G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1000 (PC2 8000).

Re: urgent

2010-06-21 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 22:32 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: Err, I think you'll find that learning how to design and implement my own operating system is more than a bit of homework. It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Not necessarily - I gather

Re: Problem installing the nouveau driver

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On 21/06/10 00:04, al...@verizon.net wrote: I bzip2'ed the file, so let's see if 11702 bytes can now sneak below the 50 KB limit :). CONFIG_FB_UVESA=m CONFIG_FB_VESA=y Device Drivers --- Graphics support --- -*- Support for frame buffer devices --- Disable everything on the

Re: urgent (Neal Murphy)

2010-06-21 Thread JimD.
It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Or Linus about a year. Sorry, but I have to comment on this. It is just too interesting. Linus's real genius was in scoping and managing the project so it could get done. The 1.0 release took more like 2

Re: urgent

2010-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Or Linus about a year. I'm not sure the OP could absorb that much info that quickly. Not to mention that Linus' first kernel wasn't what we know today. It ran a 386, and was more an

Re: urgent (Neal Murphy)

2010-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
JimD. wrote: As for Minux, another endeavor that failed to meet expectations. It depends on what you think the expectations were. My book on Minix is dated 1988 and included a 5.25 floppy with the entire source code, about 13000 lines. Tannenbaum said he wrote it for instructional reasons,

urgent (Neal Murphy)

2010-06-21 Thread JimD.
As for Minux, another endeavor that failed to meet expectations. It depends on what you think the expectations were. My book on Minix is dated 1988 and included a 5.25 floppy with the entire source code, about 13000 lines. Tannenbaum said he wrote it for instructional reasons, not commercial,

Re: urgent (Neal Murphy)

2010-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
JimD. wrote: As for Minux, another endeavor that failed to meet expectations. It depends on what you think the expectations were. My book on Minix is dated 1988 and included a 5.25 floppy with the entire source code, about 13000 lines. Tannenbaum said he wrote it for instructional

Re: Problem installing the nouveau driver

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On 21/06/10 17:21, al...@verizon.net wrote: I did find your parameters in Device Drivers Graphics support: Userspace VESA VGA graphics support [ ] VESA VGA graphics support I disabled them as shown. Alas, still the same problem with the recompiled kernel (the video dies at the end

Re: Problem installing the nouveau driver

2010-06-21 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:21:27 -0500 (CDT) al...@verizon.net wrote: Jun 21, 2010 10:52:35 AM, lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On my 'make menuconfig' Device DriversGraphics support [*] Support for frame buffer devices screen this is all I have: --- Support for frame buffer