On Thu, March 30, 2006 8:25 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> Asterisk will run on a 2.4 kernel, however the "ztdummy" timing driver > does not compile by default if it builds against a 2.4 kernel so you have > to edit the Makefile (or buy a zaptel card and use that for timing). Under > 2.4 kernels, the ztdummy driver uses the USB controller to generate > timing interrupts and there are two alternative USB kernel modules but only > one of them works with ztdummy (I've forgotten exactly which one). > > There are other timing drivers you can get if you search around... > This all goes back to the Asterisk code being designed using file handles > as timers which I would argue was a bad design to begin with but > changing it now seems like a lot of effort. yes, I when I re-perused the Book of A I realized I was somewhat not exactly correct, in hind sight, I could have done what I wanted to with my existing RH73 (but, I thought: 1: 2.6 was a pre-req, & 2: RHEL3 had 2.6)(wrong on both(and, two wrongs didn't make it right, either)) be it as it may, it didn't do me much harm finally installing the RHEL3 that was sitting on the shelf here for all this time. -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
