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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.net>]

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Sindi,
     In most recent distributions of e3, there is a C version in-
cluded which can be compiled with gcc.
Ken Martwick
     
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:55:44AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:
> 
> > sindi keesan wrote:
> >
> >> Do I really just chroot or should I reboot to this partition somehow?
> >
> > Yes, but as I said earlier, the uClibc rootfs will not work with Linux
> > 2.2. You need to boot with 2.4 and then chroot.
> >
> > David
> 
> This time I booted with the 2.4.31 scsi/usb/framebuffer kernel.  I had to 
> remark out aspi8dos.sys in config.sys or it would not boot (F5 to bypass 
> config.sys to get it to boot so I could edit config.sys).  And now linux 
> tels me there is a parity error in Data-in phase.
> scsi0:  At time of recovery, card was not paused.
> scsi0:  Dumping Card State in Data-in phase, at SEQADDR 0x79
> Card was paused
> Lots more error messages in all caps.
> ...................
> aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2003
> scsi0:0:2:0 Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message....
> Unable to clear parity error.  Resetting bus.
> scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus 
> reset:  host 0 channel 0 id 2 lun 0
> --------------
> I hope this means there is something wrong with scsi device ide 2 
> - the CD burner - rather than the scsi controller card.  It had sometimes 
> not worked before but I thought it was a user error.
> 
> Good thing we just finished replacing the other computer (with DMA 
> problem) with another one with IDE CD burner.
> 
> 
> Anyway, despite scsi problems and framebuffer use, I was able, with 2.4.31 
> kernel, to chroot to /uclibc and the prompt is now:
> 
> [root@BasicLinux /]#
> ls shows color and puts / after directories (unlike the BL2 ls)
> 
> Is it worth trying to compile ndiswrapper with uclibc?  It did not work 
> with gcc 2.9.3 - which version did not work for you?
> 
> 
> I tried to compile fbutils and was told I don't have bison.  I do have 
> flex, which it also needs.
> 
> Then I tried to compile e3 but I need nasm.
> 
> Are these available precompiled for uclibc?
> 
> awesfx comes with a .configure, which checked for libasound headers 
> version >= 1.0.0... not present
> cxonfigure:  error:  Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
> 
> I think I had compiled this in BL2 by editing out asfxload and alsa lines 
> in Makefile.in and copying to Makefile.  libasound is I think alsa.
> 
> So I tried to edit Makefile.in but there is no pico or e3pi.
> I found vi.  To insert text type i first, to give commands type ESC,
> to exit without saving in command mode type :q!  or to save :wq
> To search for also ESC /alsa.
> 
> This still did not configure.  It configured after I edited
> configure to delete all sections with alsa in them.
> 
> If I run 'make' I get a lot of undefined references to 'pow' and 'log' but 
> it did get partway through compilation and I have an sfxload.o now.
> 
> This had compiled with gcc 2.95.3 or maybe it was egcs.  I think I just 
> edited Makefile.in and did not configure at all.
> 
> I will try something easier with uclibc, some day.
> 
> Sindi
> 
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