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

William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 wacker at octothorp.org
Wed May 14 22:17:18 EDT 2003


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.
> 




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