Re: USB on Ultra 10

[Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>]

"VV" == Vladimir Volovich writes:

 VV> what i had to do:

 VV> it was somewhat tricky to install the kernel package in the first
 VV> place: i was running linux 2.4.27, and installing 2.6.14 was
 VV> giving errors when creating initrd.

 VV> i had to install 2.6.12 first, boot from there (and it was very
 VV> helpful advice to use append="video=atyfb:off" in silo.conf
 VV> because otherwise the screen was unusable even in text mode), and
 VV> then install 2.6.14.

forgot to mention that part of the "fun" with installing 2.6 kernel
package was that i had to patch yaird too, folloing these advices:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342904

 VV> in 2.6.12, text console worked great (except i had to reconfigure
 VV> console-data to use KERNEL mapping, otherwose the keyboard was
 VV> unusable even in text mode), but Xorg was crashing.

Best,
v.