Video card

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Mon May 17 11:52:12 PDT 2004


On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
>> If you've never built a kernel on this machine, you should
>> probably run ``make mrproper'' before doing anything as this
>> brings in the defaults the original Caldera kernels use.
>
>I have built numerous kernels on this machine. It was simpler in
>the old days.  I didn't run mrproper because I had to use all the
>configuration settings of my old kernel. My old kernel is a win4lin
>patched thingee. I would gladly buy a windows computer before I installed
>win4lin again.

Running win4lin on SuSE 8.[12] is pretty easy.  Download their patched
kernel and go.  I have an eDesktop 2.4 system here running win4lin that
still works on those very rare occassions when I want to run somthing under
the Windows virus (practically never since I've been running OS X on a G4
which runs TurboTax).  I really learned to build Caldera kernel RPMS by
applying the win4lin patches to the eDesktop 2.4 SRPMS.

Bill
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