Re: Multihead in Debian/Debian-based distro and 64-bits?

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- drbista <dr...@ep...> wrote:

> On Friday 07 January 2005 7:55, you wrote:
> 
<snip>
> 
> A peculiar question, does the patched kernel 
> (
>
http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiterminal/kernel-image-2.6.7-ruby.tar.bz2)
> at 
> http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead/howto-en.php when
> installed with dpkg -i 
> command would install in parallel with the existing
> 2.6.7 kernel or replace 
> the existing one? Any idea?
> 

If /lib/modules now has /2.6.7 then after installing
what you cite with dpkg -i would probably install
2.6.7-ruby. But you can tell beforehand by examining
the .deb see man deb.

In any case I had better results with 2.6.9 Ruby, but
that was with a regular 32 bit kernel of course.

In Debian compiling a kernel is trivial with the
kernel-package package. Perhaps you know. "make-kpkg
--revision 1 kernel_image" gets you the deb in the
/usr/src dir. Get the .config file from /boot and
adjust with make menuconfig in a vc.

With 2.6.9 I was able to use the Debian source of the
kernel and use Ruby (i.e the 2.6.9 vanilla kernel and
the Debian patches added) but it will depend on the
kernel and if it does not fit you will have to use the
vanilla kernel. Sorry if this has been said already
and I am duplicating information. Aivils seems to
think that the main problem is the video cards. If I
were to do it over again I would first experiment with
many of those. As it is I only have 2 nVidia cards, so
funny looking garbage remains a questionmark...


HTH
H

> I wrote to the c3sl but yet to get any response for
> the last 48 hours! :-(
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> Dr. Sichendra Bista
> 
> 



	
		
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