2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4.

[Fabio Comolli]

Bugzilla 176011 and 176012

On 12/17/05, Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, my report was not very accurate :-(
>
> On 12/17/05, Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dave.
> > Booting this kernel prevents X to start on my laptop.
> >
> > It looks that /sys/class/input does not contain all the entries needed
> > (the laptop is an ancient HP Omnibook equipped with a synaptics touchpad).
>
>
> /sys/class/input is OK, the problem is in /dev/input.
>
> With  my 2.6.15-rc5 with evdev  compiled as module  /dev/input looks like:
>
> [fcomolli at tycho ~]$ ls -l /dev/input/
> total 0
> crw-rw----  1 root root 13, 64 Dec 17  2005 event0
> crw-rw----  1 root root 13, 65 Dec 17  2005 event1
> crw-rw----  1 root root 13, 63 Dec 17  2005 mice
>
> with 2.6.14-1.1768_FC4 there is only the "mice" entry (and this is what
> pointed my to evdev).
>
> BTW, there is another minor problem: kernel 2.6.14-1.1768_FC4 boots in
> verbose mode even with the "quiet" boot option set.
>
> Regards,
> Fabio
>
>
>
>
> I I normally use a custom 2.6.15-rc5 kernel, with evdev compiled as
> > module. That module is loaded _after_ udev has started and this way
> > everithing works. Your kernel as evdev statically linked.
> >
> > I know that to use a 2.6.15-rcx kernel you are supposed to upgrade udev
> > (mine is udev-058-1.0.FC4.1) but you said that this kernel was intended
> > to be used with FC4 and not with rawhide, so I assumed that it had to work
> > with 0.58.
> >
> > Please let me know if you need more test/details.
> >
> >
> > On 12/16/05, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > To try and get a jump-start on testing 2.6.15, I've prepared
> > > packages for FC4 based on the current rawhide kernel.
> > >
> > > These are likely to change almost daily, and there's no
> > > guarantee how much longer 2.6.15 is going to be in -rc stage,
> > > so I'm going to hold off pushing these out as an official
> > > updates-testing release until a final 2.6.15 has been released.
> > > (Should a security errata be needed before then, I'll push out another
> > > 2.6.14 based release)
> > >
> > > http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC4/
> > >
> > > Please file bugs in bugzilla, rather than emailing me/this list about
> > > them.
> > >
> > >                 Dave
> > >
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