Hi, i just built a 2.6.20-rc3 new kernel for efika, and uploaded it at :

http://people.debian.org/~luther/efika

It is not yet tested, but should include the latest fixes, and a very preliminary sound driver. I am going to bed now, and will test tomorrow, but i guess impatient efika users may want to test it this evening still, so there it is.

Keep in touch for more efika based kernels, and hopefully soon a publicly available efika git tree.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Good work Sven. Thanks.

R&B :)

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Well, there was a problem in the network driver, which we fixed with Sylvain. I am doing a new build now, and hope to test the sound support after that.

BTW, my outgoing mail still seems hosed :/

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Ok, i did a bit of testing, and the sound seems to work, altough this is a very preliminary driver yet.

The network bug has been fixed also, thanks to Sylvain for it.

I will move this new kernel into the repository, so i can easily be apt-getted.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Sven, which repository do we need to set for these kernels?

FP

hi Sven,
to enable correctly network driver did you add this to your patch' collection?

'cause with that one now, here, it works fine.

greetz,
Acrux

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the kernel works well, but do you know where i can get the linux-kbuild-2.6.20 for debian so i can install the headers

Sven,

I have been trying to net-boot the di_efika image on my EFIKA. It seems to download just fine but when it should start booting I get nothing on-screen from the EFIKA. I do _not_ have a serial cable. Is it supposed to put up a console on-screen and accept keyboard input or do I have to supply a boot arguement for that?

Alternately, would it be possible for me to load the 2.6.20-rc3 image you created and mount to an nfsroot and display on screen as opposed to serial console?


Thanks

UPDATE - I have figured it out... Two problems. First, my di_efika image was corrupt. Second, not even text mode would work under Linux on the EFIKA when I had the nVidia board plugged in. I had to swap it for my ATi Radeon that I use in my desktop.

Tim LePes

ATA doesn't work and neither does it with the Crux-provided patches.

I compiled a kernel myself from self-patched source and got nothing better. ATA is in there, it just doesn't work.

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