On Thu, 22 April 1999, "Germano Rizzo" wrote:
>
> >I've got a Banshee.
> ouch! I think it's only supported through a patch... check the patch
> section of SuSE web site... There was a thread about this a
> week ago, but I didn't follow it... I've got no banshee... but I remember
> the guy was quite disappointed... Do you still need help for kernel? Write
> me exacly what you need, and maybe I could be of some use... the filesystem
> problem doesn't sound related to the kernel, IMHO...
> Mano :)
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Heh, heh; It's kind of embarassing, but here's my story...
I got a generic 2.2.5 tarball from ftp.us.kernel.org, and installed it.
Under SuSE 6.0 Official, the kernel would panic when it tried to mount /.
I got frustrated, wiped the disk, and installed my SuSE 6.0 ("Evaluation")
CD-ROM from Linuxmall. Using the "Sorta Burned" copy of SuSE's ftp site,
I installed all of the available packages that were listed at the kernel
2.2 changes FAQ. The kernel I built subsequently works.
For those of you who are already lost, I ditched the real deal for a
"not-so-official" installation source. It's like I said above, the
Linuxmall CD is basically the SuSE ftp site burned onto a disk, made
bootable, and silk-screened with a Linuxmall logo. They cost $1.89 US,
and are worth every penny to somebody like me.
So far, the kernel is good, and all of the applications are stable AFAIK
except for two *important* exceptions: PPPd and GPM. My version of PPPd
is already 2.3.5, as listed on the k2.2 changes page, and I *think* my GPM
settings are good, too. I do seem to remember that I disabled lots of
mouse options when I was configuring the kernel, but I left standard
serial devices as part of the kernel, and my mouse is on ttys0. I'm gonna
go home tonight and set up a new config file, just in case I screwed some-
thing up royally. It keeps saying that pppd died unexpectedly and that
my gpm arguments are invalid. We'll see...
As far as video, I don't plan on running any "patches" or "beta" servers
on my system (I actually saw a video card start smoking once when the guy
setting it up used the wrong server [!]). I'll be running a frame buffer
for safety's sake, as soon as I get the latest XFree86. I've got the FB
set up in the kernel, and the only thing left is to master LILO's settings
to change video modes (plus, I here that there's a little Tux that greets
you on boot [!] in svga mode).
-=|JP|=-
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