Re: [DIGImend-users] Tablet issue - Waltop Vistablet Button problem

[Favux ... <fav...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Nitro <pt...@gm...> wrote:
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> Thanks for the help, appreciate it.
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> I download the attachment waltop button fix version 2
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> I followed this guide
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
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> but Im doing something wrong I lost 10 hours on it :/
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> Is there any easier guide out there for patching kernels.
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> Thanks.:)

Sorry, I feel your pain.  Hopefully you don't feel the time was totally wasted.

I work with a little Python applet and finally bit the bullet to move
it from the Message Tray in Gnome Shell back to the System Status Area
where it belongs.  Long story short I get the extension written and
working and kicked back to admire it sitting in the top right where it
belongs on my Fedora 16.  Then I foolishly test it by installing Gnome
Shell 3.4 (16 has 3.2) on my Ubuntu Precise and the applet won't
auto-start!  Commence with the hair pulling.  A bug?  A change in 3.4?
 Do I install Fedora 17 to rule out a Ubuntu bug?

More on topic I started to write a HOW TO for Fedora a few months ago
thinking I could emulate the Ubuntu HOW TO:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1946486  With a Debian kernel
you can take a short cut, if you don't mind a little risk.
Unfortunately it didn't work in 15 or 16, I don't remember which.
That's because the Fedora kernel team in the kernel .config file had
made a module you need free-standing a built-in.  So no go.  Maybe
that's been changed with 17, I haven't looked.  So I decided against
finishing the HOW TO because I'd be duplicating the link you cite.

In short when I was looking that seemed like the best RPM guide I
could find at the time.  If there is a better one I don't know of it.

Nick's taking a break right now.  It may be two weeks or longer before
he'd be able to compile a Fedora kernel for you.

Favux