Re: Init acting the maggot?

2005-07-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:39 +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote: > You are very kind to them. Between the old way and the new, even m$ > would have gone bust if they had tried that. The trouble is, the new > way > is going to be worse. They tried this with pcmcia support and > succeeded > in proving that

Re: 2.6 Cursor problem (was init acting the maggot):-(

2005-07-02 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > > > Did the cursor work adequately on 2.6 in the past ? > > > > > Never. But I never used 2.6 much. > > > > > Which version of 2.6 are you now using, and which was your > > > previous working version

Re: 2.6 Cursor problem (was init acting the maggot):-(

2005-07-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > Did the cursor work adequately on 2.6 in the past ? > > > Never. But I never used 2.6 much. > > > Which version of 2.6 are you now using, and which was your previous > > working version ? > > 2.6.12.1. > > 2.6.0, 2.6.9, & 2.6.10 all showed the same

Re: Init acting the maggot?

2005-07-01 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 19:13 +0200, Joern Abatz wrote: > I think we are in the middle of a process. The old way was: A program talks > to a device file, the kernel wakes up and loads the corresponding module. > The new way is: Something, a boot script, loads a module, udev sees it and > creates the

Re: 2.6 Cursor problem (was init acting the maggot):-(

2005-07-01 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > > > > I rebuilt the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels on LFS-5.0 here. Only a 1% change, > > mainly in usb because the modules were barfing over hotplug. > > > > Spamd is now starting under the 2.4 kernel and all se

Re: Init acting the maggot?

2005-06-30 Thread Joern Abatz
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:00:13PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > modprobe radeon got me a module which found the right type of card in > the agp bus. That looked good. Good. > modprobe fbcon gave me: FATAL: Module fbcon not found. It's 'Framebuffer Console support' in 'make menuconfig'. >

Re: Init acting the maggot?

2005-06-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > Which kind of tells me I didn't compile in a framebuffer at all. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.1]# grep FRAMEBUFFER .config > # CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set > > but the radeon module loaded a module called fb. Same thing? > N

Re: 2.6 Cursor problem (was init acting the maggot):-(

2005-06-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > I rebuilt the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels on LFS-5.0 here. Only a 1% change, > mainly in usb because the modules were barfing over hotplug. > > Spamd is now starting under the 2.4 kernel and all seems well there. > Loadkeys is running again under the 2.6 ker

2.6 Cursor problem (was init acting the maggot):-(

2005-06-30 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:43:49PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > > > Should I choose a 2.6 kernel, the loadkeys script doesn't start, and > > I get this curious messing with no cursor. > This is infuriating I rebuilt the 2.4 and 2.6 kern

Re: Init acting the maggot?

2005-06-29 Thread Joern Abatz
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:43:49PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > Should I choose a 2.6 kernel, the loadkeys script doesn't start, and I > get this curious messing with no cursor. To me it smells like a framebuffer issue. Ok, here is (almost) all I know about the framebuffer: Try 'modprobe fb