> > (1) Any luck with building working kernels?
>
> I tried building the generic kernel using the config
> file from debian that you sent out and I go the funky
> error where it's not able to read the kernel file. I'm
> going to play with it some more though. I'm fairly
> certain at this point that there must be a bug of some
> sort with either aboot or the 2.2.17 kernel build. I
> have not looked at the 2.2.18 yet, but I do plan on do
> that today.
This is sounding more and more like issues between the kernel version and
the version of aboot. Until we hear something from the aboot people,
though, I don't really know what to do about it. At this point, I'd say
the best bet is to try the 2.2.18pre kernels and seeing if they work any
better.
> > (2) Does anyone have any experiences with X they
> > would like to share?
>
> I have X11 running on a 21164 and soon I'll have be
> upgrading my hard drives in my other alpha, so I can
> also test it out on a 21164A. As of yet, I have not
> had any issues with X11.. good old xf86config helps
> out a lot. I've been spoiled with commerical Unix's
> that only require you tell the X server what
> resolution and depth you want.... maybe one day XF86
> will be that easy.
Good! I was getting worried that I might have to rebuild all the X stuff.
Additionally, I was successfully able to build X 4.0.1 last night from our
Slackware package source. xterm also built. Yay! I haven't worked on
packaging it yet, because packaging X is no fun at all (even though 4.0.1
is currently only two packages).
I'm personally hoping that, by the time this port is ready, we will have
moved over to X 4.x in the distribution. That will make things a lot
easier, I think.
> I do need to rsync today and upgrade my packages,
> which I have not done over the past week. It's been a
> crazy week.
Luckily, I didn't do too much this week.
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
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