Re: 2.6 Kernel and IDE dierect for burners

Audioslave - 7M3 - Live <creed7m3live@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:08:45 -0500

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 16:09, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live wrote:
If I ever sucessfully get one of the 2.5 kernels compiled. I'll try it 
out also. Other than the trouble with getting the modules to compile

sucessfully. The kernel that I compiled doesn't successfully load.
It would be great to have a system that had all the required libs and 
mod-utilities to compile these kernels successfully. I hope that the 
next beta cycle includes these capabilities.

Well, to compile a 2.5 kernel you only need gcc-2.9x or gcc-3.2.x, make,
Rusty's modutils and nothing else. It seems pretty easy :-)

I have gcc 3.2.1-7 installed. The kernel portion compiles without 
errors. I did a search for modutils and couldn't find one for the 2.5 
kernel. I did grab and install modutils-2.4.24-1 from rusty's directories.
With these CDRs that you recorded. Did you try to use them in readers 
that were sort of written off, in earlier discussions, on this list?

I haven't actually tested the burned CD's on any other thing that two or
three standard CD/DVD readers.

If I figure out how to get a suitable version of the modutils, I'll try 
to compile the kernel again. I'm not very much for programming. I have 
been able to compile kernels before, without much running around for 
mod-utils and such. earlier versions seemed to have the resources at 
hand. Of course, I was more interested in getting my ethernet, soundcard 
and different filesystems workable. I disregarded the modules aspect and 
just made them the part of the kernel.
I am more interested in the CDR benefits and increased performance 
within the GUI now. I'll probably need to figure out the modules aspect now.
For me, the modules seemed to compile and install. At least, according 
to the outputs to the screen. Now they fail with errors.

I'd like to burn a CDR that plays well in about any audio player, works 
great within foreign operating systems and is read without errors in the 
written off readers.

Don't know why burning with a 2.5 kernel should make any difference
respect a 2.4 :-?

In my case, I seem to get garbage data burned to the cdrs. I think that 
the IDE control, over ide-scsi emulation would resolve this particular 
problem. This is from my assumption that the emulation is allowing the 
distortion, in data, that I am experiencing.
Though i'm in favor of working within the latest kernel build 
environment. I am getting that this 2.6 kernel can only be expedited 
through a whole distribution that caters to using the latest in kernel 
development, with the latest in the development of programs and GUI 
managers.

Uh? GUI managers? Development tools? To compile 2.5? I'm lost...

As a user, not a programmer. I was thinking that testing the full lot of 
programs, within the developmental kernel,  would test the pros and cons 
of the current kernel development, with the program interactions. Sort 
of a full pool of influencing factors, tested fully. Interactions and 
developmental paths could be evaluated better. Programs would be caught, 
for breakage, earlier. Then the current stable versions could be 
patched, before the advance to the latest and greatest versions.
It sounds like a great time for a "Linux, on the edge" distribution. How 
else can someone gauge the best directions to take Linux, into the future?

Well, I'm running 2.5.66-m1 on Phoebe3, so if I can, you could too. No
need for a "Linux on the edge" distribution: you can do it right now :-)

As a general user. I hope to catch onto the makings for getting a 
successful 2.5 kernel onboard my system. Thanks for the information. Now 
to get a working kernel! still searching for the modutils for 2.5.
Jim
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        Felipe Alfaro Solana
   Linux Registered User #287198
http://counter.li.org

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