New user encountering problems

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
	It is possible to build a speakup kernel from the Red Hat source
RPM. Just skip the patches that can't find their files, they don't apply
to the i386.
	However, the kernel will build, but unless you use a rh supplied
config, your modules will have unresolved symbols all over the place. I
don't think speakup agrees with some of the patches RH applied to their
kernel rpm, for it is not a clean source. They've applied all sorts of
stuff that are beta, or even alpha. Not wise, I believe they do it to try
to get their distro to support more hardware.
	Personally, I think slackware is the best, closely followed by
debian.

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Kirk Wood wrote:

> I believe this is a kernel problem. Once the kernel starts expanding (you
> get the loading and the dots, then the kernel quickly takes over. My guess
> is that you used the kernell source provided by RedHat. If you did, then
> you should download the kernel (possibly from kernel.org) and apply the
> patch compile, etc.) RedHat doesn't provide the complete kernel and as a
> result the built images don't work correct. Sorry I can't give you more
> complete details. Just that it is common to discover you can't build a
> working kernel with speakup from the RedHat source package.
>