Hi, Leif, Actually I am still VERY interested in Fedora Core 3. As you recall, it installed completely in about 30 minutes and worked with XWindows and everything except svgalib. So far I have spent about 20 hours on Mandrake, Debian, Ubuntu and have yet to have anyone of them work with xwindows. Today I found that Ubuntu couldn't start Xwindows, but it DID find the network card OK. It wouldn't let me set the root password [I later discovered that the default mode is to have no root set up] and I decided to try "Sarge" Debian "Sarge" found the network, but wouldn't start X windows. I figured out how to get to an ftp site to download a new version of XFree86, but didn't know my version of glibc, which was apparently necessary, so I just gave up after trying several suggestions on how to figure that out, none of which worked. I decided to work on things I really need to work right now, and moved on to other things. So if there is a way to keep FC3 working with svgalib, I AM VERY INTERESTED. None of the other flavors of Linux have gotten as far here. and the ratio of time spent to get a non-working Non-Fedora Linux installation vs a working Fedora Installation is about 40:1 at this point!! So I am going to read your post carefully and see if I can get Fedora to work. Thanks and 73, Roger W3SZ > Hi Roger, > > > Unfortunately, I still have the problem after rebooting. > > > OK. I know now it is because the /dev/svga files are missing. > > The solution I adapted was to run the svga file. > > I put copies and links as in Makefile.ext which might > be part of the next Linrad version. (Unless Matan > releases a new version that makes it superfluous) > > Afterwords I got the following from Matan: > > > I use FC3, and don't have this problem. FC3 uses udev, which creates > > the devices automatically when the modules is inserted. > > Do you run modprobe svgalib_helper, or trust kmod to load the module? > > udev does not support this method, since the devices are not there > > before the module is loaded. > > > > Anyway, since udev creates the /dev/ directory every boot, if you want a > > permanent device that udev does not create for some reason, run > > > > cp -a /dev/svga* /etc/udev/devices > > > > Since udev (or fedora startup scripts) copy devices from there to /dev > > on boot. > > Maybe using modprobe rather than insmod makes something automatically? > > I tried svgalib-1.9.19 on several old distributions and it does not > work. I have sent error messages to Matan, maybe he can fix it easily. > I think it is valuable to keep backwards compatibility and make > Linrad easy to use on elderly computers. None of the modern distributions > runs directly on my old Pentium although it is fully adequate for > Linrad with 5 kHz bandwidth. Maybe if I recompile the kernels for it > on another computer..... > > The old svgalib-1.4.3 can still be used (of course) but its VESA driver > is so hopelessly slow. > > Roger, I guess you are no longer interested in Fedora Core 3 judging > all the posts on the list about other alternatives, but I try to ensure > Linrad will work under any distribution....... > > 73 > > Leif / SM5BSZ > >
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