Present Perfect

Got a new laptop, a Toshiba Tecra 8200. Nice thingy, but again I need to run the video card in frame buffer mode to get decent X. Oh well, the card seems fast enough for it not to matter, though I won't be playing tuxracer anytime soon.

On another note, I decided it was time to build kernel packages for Dave/Dina the right way. Right now I was custom-building the kernel and moving modules manually into the DD module, and adding these binary modules to CVS. Yeah, I know, don't add object code to CVS.

Anyway, I downloaded a red hat kernel SRPM and checked the spec file. Then I threw that away and started from scratch, and it went suprisingly easy if you forego some of the specialised stuff. Just make a config the standard way, put that config in the DD module, type make rpm, and wait half an hour. I'd have thought I'd run into more issues.

Right now I'm looking for a way for RPM to generate a DD-OS-kernel and DD-OS-modules rpm from the same spec file without trying to make a DD-OS rpm. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

Got a new laptop, a Toshiba Tecra 8200. Nice thingy, but again I need to run the video card in frame buffer mode to get decent X. Oh well, the...