Got it running (was Re: best way to install rh9?)

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Hi,

     For the future, it isn't necessary to patch miscdevice.h.  RH already
defines 10, 25 for the synth device.  The only difference is that the code
from CVS puts in a #ifdef CONFig_SPEAKUP so the device wouldn't be added 
if
SPEAKUP wasn't set.
          HTH.
-- 
          Bill


On Wed, 14 May 2003, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi
> Thanks much to everyone who answered my questions about installing rh9. 
> I've got rh9 and cvs speakup up and running after handpatching keyboard.c 
> and miscdevice.h.  I must say it's better than rh7 which was the version I 
> last used. However, how do I adjust the firewall level? I see a gui tool 
> for doing it but nothing for textmode.
> One last question: How safe is it to divert away from the rh-supplied 
> kernel configs? One of the problems in rh7 seemed to be that if I deviated 
> too far from the rh standard, my modules would have many unresolved 
> symbols, never could figure out why. Does this still happen?
> Thanks again.
> 
> At 21:43 5/12/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >      In /usr/src/<linux_directory>/drivers/char/keyboard.c, find the lines
> >that say
> >static struct kbd_struct * kbd = kbd_table;
> >static struct tty_struct * tty;
> >Presently, they're on lines 101 and 102.  Remove the word static and the
> >space after it from the beginning of each line.  This is after the
> >checkout program attempts to patch the file.  I have no idea what the next
> >line does.  That appears to be the one that RH adds.
> >           HTH.
>