Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Steffen Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > a new KGI-0.9 snapshot is available from
> >
> > http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sse/ggi/kgi-0.9-20000222.tar.gz
> >
>
> Mr. Seeger,
>
> I downloaded that snapshot and tried to get it running on my SuSE 6.3
> Intel box, running a 2.2.13 kernel.
>
> I followed the insructions given in the top-level README.install.
> I did a symbolic link from kgi-0.9/kgi/Linux/linux to the kernel
> sources ...
You just spotted a formulation bug in README.install. The appropriate
section should read
- get a fres Linux source tree archive, and copy (or symlink)
it to kgi-0.9/kgi/Linux/linux-v.e.r.tar.gz,
instead of
- get a fresh Linux source tree, and copy (or symlink) it
to kgi-0.9/kgi/Linux/linux-v.e.r.tar.gz,
You have to link or copy a linux source tar.gz archive to
linux-v.e.r.tar.gz,
not the toplevel directory of the source tree. Thus you'd have to
do one of the following commands in kgi-0.9/kgi/Linux:
cp <path to archive>/linux-2.2.13.tar.gz .
or (cd /usr/src; tar cf - linux/) | tar xf -
or tar xzf <path to archive/linux-2.2.13.tar.gz
Note that the second command might result in patching failure of the
configure script if your local source tree contains already
modifications (SuSE kernels usually have a lot of those.)
However, with the first or last you are almost failsafe.
> Then I did a 'make' in kgi-0.9, which configured the package and
> also set up a configuration file '.config' in the kernel source
> base directory.
> Unfortunately, unlike you mention in that README, CONFIG_VT is not
> disabled and nothing like CONFIG_KGI gets inserted into the .config.
> After the doing a 'make' in kgi-0.9/kgi/Linux, the kernel is
> built, but comes up with error messages during the build.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?? Can you please give some pitfall/trouble-
> shoot instructions!!
Please try again with the hints given above.
> Also could you add a general README to explain what exactly kgi is doing
> and what is not providing!!
There are some general articles about KGI where you downloaded it.
I am currently working on a more detailed documentation on the Linux
patches to be included with the next snapshot.
> Can I use the libggi with the fbdev display target through it?
The fbdev target is not availabele with KGI-enabled kernels. But
there is the KGI target instead. However, KGI-0.9 is still in
development
as far as libGGI and X11 support is concerned and there is no useable
libGGI support so far.
> Would be of big help for non-graphics cracks to pick up on your work!!
I hope this helps you. Please note that there is a separate mailing list
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discuss KGI related issues. Please direct
further discussions to this list or me personally.
Steffen
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