camera revisited

[Andy Green]

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On Friday 14 May 2004 19:04, Gene Heskett wrote:

> I've been doing a "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera" since forever
> on rh8.0.  Whats so different about that in FC1?

Your fuXX0Red kernel?

> >UR a whole lot Puzzled.
>
> Yup, that I am.  IF, and I wish I could underline that, all the module
> loading stuff worked, I wouldn't have to build a custom kernel with

loading... modules from YOUR kernel....

> All of my problems actually started with a failed make of the new
> X.org X11R6.7.  Following their instructions to the letter, I started
> the make in the build dir, dirlinked to the sc dir in the same tree.
> It errored out about halfway thru the make, and my system has been
> screwed ever since.

Okie, why are you tracking Fedora if you want to roll your own everything?  
Why not move to Gentoo?  Fedora Development (aka Rawhide) has xorg package 
perfectly functional and integrated into the RPM world.

> I didn't get that pango problem fixed until I hand carved a .pangorc
> file.  None of the rpms available for pango and gtk are actually
> capable of restoreing a broken system even when you use --force and

I never had a pango problem as I recall, I dunno.

> I can edit a grub.conf with the average kernel install, and make it
> work on the first pass.  If I'm to install one of your rpm kernels,

I had nothing to do with it, they are FEDORA kernel packages.

> how can I make it understand there are maybe 16 other kernels already

Your kernels?

> It seems the last 6 months everything I fix breaks at least 3 other
> things.

My life has been different.... I tracked FEDORA DEVELOPMENT on several of my 
machines.  It was not pain free, BUT IT WAS NOT SIX MONTHS OF TOOTHACHE.

Maybe, possibly, there is a lesson there for you.

- -Andy

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