[OLPC-devel] error report on usb8xxx with new kernel and firmware

[Jim Gettys]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 12:52 +0700, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:

> 
> The point of different I notice are:
> 
> 1. slackware detect usb8xxx via /etc/rc.d/rc.M --> hotplug
> 2. slackware do not have /etc/module.d/blacklist
> 3. slackware has different /etc/udev/rules.d/
> 4. login by slackware using PAM lib
> 5. /etc/inittab are different
> 
> But above mechanism work under old OLPC BIOS.
> 
> If I know exactly steps and mechanism under fedora to fire-up usb8xxx then 
> I may be able to solve the problem.
> 

You have both the binaries and sources for Fedora.  It is up to you to
find the problems in Slackware. We have no way to do that work for you,
nor the time to figure out and explain what Fedora may be doing.

This is true in general: unless you are working on a specific item where
you need the latest version of something, you may be best off taking
apart the Fedora RPM and using those bits as a starting point: you would
have avoided the fiasco of building the wrong version/driver for X
several times, for example.

			Regards,
                          - Jim Gettys

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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child