Some time ago I mentioned in these circles, and some discussion ensued, that I'd had some difficulty building a kernel src.rpm. As I recall, the most intractable problem was that it made a device (mknod) during the build process. Bill said, "But it has the be root to do that," and I suggested doing it as part of the install (which is how I got round it). Today I've downloaded and built the 2.4.0 kernel; it built first time;-) I have one beef - it should call itself kernel-2.4.0-test4.... And not only that, but also... I've been running 2.4 kernels for some time; I'm up to test7. I'd built sound support as modules because I planned to get an awe64 card; by the time I finished putting it off, the cheapest SB card I could get was the PCI Vibra 128. I inspected it closely and couldn't identify the sound chip, so I stuck it in, booted, modprobed three times (sound was pretty obvious), and sound works. Just like that. So, sound's been pretty bad in the past, but it's getting better. I've not INSTALLED linux with sound support for a while, but that sound card wa every bit as easy as a NIC I installed last week. Oh; the gcc 2.96 src.rpm from rawhide built first go too;-) Once I installed yet another rpm rpm|-( _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
