Re: Custom RaQ2 LCD

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On 3/9/06, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:

* Link <astrallink@gmail.com> [2006-03-09 09:51]:
> root@zelda:~# putlcd "test" "test"
> Writing LCD: No such device

And this is the putlcd from CoLo?

> I'm using a custom kernel, 2.4.31 with the patches (including LCD patch)
> from: http://www.*colo*nel-panic.org/*cobalt*-mips/

Which LCD patch?  I cannot find anything in the 2.4 patches on that
page.

The way the LCD is controlled changed at some point.  This is a
wild guess, but it seems that that your kernel is using the old
method.  Does the tool from
http://people.debian.org/~pm/mips-cobalt/lcdutils-0.2.tar.gz
work?

BTW, why don't you just use a Debian kernel?  (You can use 2.6 if
2.4.27 is too old for you.)
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

You
know, I thought it was the colo putlcd I was using, but I redownloaded
it just to be sure, and it seems to work.  It's the lcdutils one
that doesn't work.  Thanks!

Apparently there wasn't an lcd patch in colonel-panic's patchset, for some reason I thought there was.

There was something in the 2.4 kernel that was missing that I needed,
so I just compiled my own.  I've always used custom kernels (comes
from running LFS systems probably), and I wasn't comfortable putting
the server into production until I knew I'd be able to recompile my
kernel if need be.

All is well, thanks again!

-Ryan

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