Re: mol with 2.2.17pre9


Subject: Re: mol with 2.2.17pre9
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (bh40@calva.net)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 15:36:22 MDT


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>Have you compiled Mol-support into your kernel or do you use a precompiled
>one? The run-time patch probably won't work for that version, but if you
>apply the 2.2.15x-patch to the kernel-sources, you should be able to build
>your own mol-capable kernel. That worked for me with 2.2.17pre10, at least.
>There were also warning messages from sheep_net.o and some other module
>about version conflicts, but they didn't seem to be fatal.
>I cannot run it in console mode on my PB, though, as it always tries to
>switch to 640x480 resolution (see my last post) and there appear to be
>problems with the mice in the new input layer, but within X it is working.
>Some other things are not working well with that kernel, e.g. sleep, but
>that might not worry your iMac.

Well, I run MOL with dynamic patching with all my kernels without trouble
here... Make sure to recompile mol once upon a time with the correct
kernel sources pointed by /usr/src/linux and also make sure you have a
matching System.map in /boot

Ben.



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