Re: potato install on AX and AXi

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:08:28PM -0700, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed debian potato on an AX and AXi. On the whole it went smoothly,
> here are the problems I found:

Are the AX/AXi like the AXe (ps2 system)?

> - gpm + X hangs - already reported

I assume this is with a Xsun. I think I have a solution to make the Xsun
server try /dev/gpmdata initially before trying /dev/mouse. This will
assume that you have -Rraw enabled on gpm which works for my Mach64 Ultra
5 (ps2 mouse though).

> - There is a binfmt_elf.o module even though this is compiled into the
> kernel. Running depmod gives unresolved symbols, more an annoyance than a bug.

binfmt_elf.o is actually 64bit userland support, which doesn't really work
on 2.2.x anyway. The reason I did not compile it into the kernel is that
it acts as more of a DoS (running 64bit programs) than anything useful :)
binfmt_elf32 is compiled in obviously.

> - The AXi type 5 keyboard was found by the X server as a type 2. The XF86Config
> had to be manually edited for it to work. I will look into this.

Weird.

> That was my venture into userland, now back to kernel hacking :)

Thanks for taking the time to report this,
  Ben

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