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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Why did you use a 2.4 kernel, was that needed by uClibC?
>
> Yes, the uClibc compiling package does not work with a
> 2.2 kernel.

And Xvesa would not compile with glibc5 so you needed uClibC which 
demanded 2.4?

> > How much bigger would the kernel be for BL3 if you compiled
> > a 2.4 kernel with the same configuration as the current one?
>
> I've just compiled a 2.4 version of the BL3 kernel.  It is
> 376kb bigger than the 2.2 version (and it doesn't help Xvesa,
> which still crashes on the same programs).

Are there SW7.1 era versions of these programs which crash Xvesa?  If so, 
I could try them out.  I think you said Netscape was one of them.
Is it on the SW7.1 CD?

> So I'm going to forget about the 2.4 kernel and go hunting
> for some more applications that will work with Xvesa.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
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