[PlanetCCRMA] udpated: fc2 kernel/jack, muse for fc1/rh9, new fc3 packages

David Fraser davidf@sjsoft.com
Tue Dec 28 23:29:01 2004


Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 15:22, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 09:31, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 07:51, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
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>>>>Latest news...
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>>>>New kernel released for Fedora Core 2, same version, release and
>>>>features as the current Fedora Core 3 kernel (it is in the planetcore
>>>>repository, not planetedge, and includes a full ALSA subsystem release,
>>>>planetccrma-core packages and the rtload and rtirq startup scripts). 
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>>>hi fernando - are there kernel source packages available for this so i
>>>can compile my nvidia video driver?
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>I don't that is necessary any more, the information needed to build
>external drivers is supposedly included in the binary package. 
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>>also, this kernel will not mount my usb bus - it says that the usb filesystem 
>>is not supported with this kernel ... is usb support not compiled in?
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>Yes, it is, but I think the only thing affected is the mount of
>/proc/usb/, the kernel should see all the usb devices anyway. The name
>of the internal filesystem for usb changed from usbdevfs to usbfs in
>recent kernels. You should be able to manually (be careful!) edit
>/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to change usbdevfs to usbfs. But that would not
>work with the older kernels, of course. I could release an updated
>initscripts package but that is such a core package I hesitate to do
>that. 
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All the initscripts packages since at least 7.88-1 have usbfs rather 
than usbdevfs.
So the best plan may be to include instructions to use an appropriate 
initscripts package.

David