[geeks] Never thought I'd ask this

[Phil Stracchino]

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:35:06 -0400
> Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
>> Knoppix 5.1.1 handles the buggy IDE chipset OK, but I can't get the
>> trackpoint device to work, and I have to disable USB to get it to boot
>> because the damned OHCI USB chipset hard-locks the entire machine if
>> probed at boot time.
> [...]
> Maybe all you need is a self compiled kernel tailored to fit your
> speciffic hardware...


Yes, that's what I did when I had Gentoo on it.  But before I can
compile a custom kernel on it, I've got to get it running with a
development environment, and before I can do that, I've got to
successfully install on it.


-- 
        Phil Stracchino                CDK#2
 Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater
 phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net   alaric at caerllewys.net
 Landline: 603-429-0220           Mobile: 603-320-5438
        It's not the years, it's the mileage.