Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Thomas Hertweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-12-07 17:12]: >> Sounds good. The next task then is to convince the SuSE guys to ship >> NVIDIA kernel modules... *duck and run* ;-) > > but they are not open-source. Illegal. It was a joke, ok. Did you see the email addres

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Magnus Boman
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 22:15 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:07:18PM +, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > > > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > [...] > > > 16.55 wahoo:~ > rpm -q --changelog kernel-default | head > > > (none)* Fri Mar 09 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - Enable CO

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Thomas Hertweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-12-07 17:12]: > Sounds good. The next task then is to convince the SuSE guys to ship > NVIDIA kernel modules... *duck and run* ;-) but they are not open-source. Illegal. -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 http:/

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:07:18PM +, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > [...] > > 16.55 wahoo:~ > rpm -q --changelog kernel-default | head > > (none)* Fri Mar 09 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Enable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS (#210899 and a zillion others.) Turns > > out that vm

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 08:10 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Terry, > > 2. Enable usbfs in the kernel. You can install a new vanilla kernel > > load the old config, enable the module and recompile. Another > > approach is just to use the same source and recompile. This is the > > fastest way. I ha

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > [...] > 16.55 wahoo:~ > rpm -q --changelog kernel-default | head > (none)* Fri Mar 09 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Enable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS (#210899 and a zillion others.) Turns > out that vmware isn't going to change anything, so making our > users (and executives) ha

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Thomas Hertweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-12-07 16:48]: [...] > As I wrote in my last email, there are several ways to deal with this > problem. If you have to support many systems and not just your local > desktop system, then the simplest way might be an RPM package that > replaces the default

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Gaël Lams wrote: > [...] > I will have to rebuild kernel to be used in VMWare guests for various > servers (and rebuild them after each kernel security updates), I'm > interesting in understanding and testing the whole procedure. As I wrote in my last email, there are several ways to deal with t

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 12 March 2007 05:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon 12 Mar 2007 08:13, Gaël Lams wrote: > > I will have to rebuild kernel to be used in VMWare guests for > > various servers (and rebuild them after each kernel security > > updates) > > __ > > - this is a matter of moments : >

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
Terry, On Monday 12 March 2007 06:12, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: > There are two ways to be able to run for example the treo in VMware. > As you well known the usbfs is disable in SuSE 10.2 and therefore you > can not sync. Other usb devices are not affected like keyboard etc. I think it would be

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
There are two ways to be able to run for example the treo in VMware. As you well known the usbfs is disable in SuSE 10.2 and therefore you can not sync. Other usb devices are not affected like keyboard etc. 1. You can download the beta 6.0 of VMware workstation. The problem is solved there (I have

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread riccardo35
On Mon 12 Mar 2007 08:13, Gaël Lams wrote: > I will have to rebuild kernel to be used in VMWare guests for various > servers (and rebuild them after each kernel security updates) __ - this is a matter of moments : one needs kernel source installed, then, run /usr/bin/vm

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Magnus Boman
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 09:13 +0100, Gaël Lams wrote: > Hi, > > I will have to rebuild kernel to be used in VMWare guests for various > servers (and rebuild them after each kernel security updates), I'm > interesting in understanding and testing the whole procedure. If this is for the VMware/usbfs

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, I will have to rebuild kernel to be used in VMWare guests for various servers (and rebuild them after each kernel security updates), I'm interesting in understanding and testing the whole procedure. I wrote a kernel howto (actually this project started in 2002) which I think is well known a

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Randall R Schulz wrote: > [...] > > It did not seem to lead me totally astray. I went with the suggestion of > creating an RPM (because I was using one computer to do the build but > the result was intended primarily for my friend's computer). This is > where things fell down, probably because

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-11 Thread Randall R Schulz
Thomas, Thanks for replying... For being the _only_ one to reply! As it turns out, this project has already taken place, though not with complete success. More below. On Sunday 11 March 2007 08:34, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > [...] > > 1) Specific recommendations on t

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Randall R Schulz wrote: > [...] > 1) Specific recommendations on the most expedient way to endow the > kernel in openSUSE 10.2 with this USB support. In particular, is it > possible to simply load (or build and load) a kernel module to reenable > the USB filesystem (known variously as usbfs, us

[opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, At my behest, a friend installed openSUSE 10.2 on his new Core2 Duo-based machine. He's liking it pretty well, but there's one serious problem that needs to be resolved: The current implementation of VMware (he's using the free Server version) is not compatible with the USB changes made in