On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:18:34PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > going properly. However, I still lack support for vino, which is one of > the prime motivators for getting the machine in the first place. When I Start hacking. The vino isn't complete yet, see: http://www.linux-mips.org/~ladis/vino/vino.html > The kernel image for 2.4.19 came with the config, so this is what I > used, just modified it using make menuconfig and tried compiling it. > The kernel image did not come with source code however, so I unpacked a > version of Linux 2.4.19 that I had downloaded from kernel.org. It got > right to the end and coughed up an error. (See kernel-error-2.4.19) Vanilla 2.4.19 won't work. Get 2.4.19 kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips from the debian archive, or... > > Thinking it may have been a bug that has been corrected, I tried to > compile Linux 2.4.20. I copied the .config from 2.4.19 and did a make > oldconfig. Compiling here also failed, coughing an error part way > through. (See kernel-error-2.4.20) ...check out 2.4.20 from linux-mips.org cvs, use the tag linux_2_4. > > I noticed that there was a version of the Linux kernel on the > linux-mips.org website. Figuring that this may have a corrected version > of the kernel source, I downloaded it (via CVS) copied my .config and > re-ran make oldconfig again. This also failed to compile, coughing up > an error fairly early in the piece. (See kernel-error-2.5.47) 2.5 is currently a bit rough on mips to say the least. If you want it running you've got to fix the errors you're seeing. Regards, -- Guido
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