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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:46:17AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:

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> >>I am using BL3 with a 2.4.31 kernel ....
> 
> >That's neat. May take you up on it. I booted BL3 with my 2.4.19
> >kernel from debian and it configured the serial port just fine.
> >But I lost X. Otherwise everything seemed to be fine.
> 
> Odd about X.  I will check BL3 with my 2.4.31 kernel.

Pretty sure it has to do with the configuration of my kernel,
rather than anything inherent in it. 

Here are the error messages. I couldn't get them into a file
using redirection and remembered a 'trick' a Unix guru showed
me a long time ago: A screenshot taken by opening another tty
and from there executing 'cat /dev/vcs1 > file'. It was all one
long line with ^G (bell/alert) between every character. Ran it
through sed to remove the ^G and fold to replace the newlines
(more-or-less).

Nothing stops a real Linux Runner! No X? No screen? No GPM?
No problem. :-)

<#>startx
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k net-pf-1, errno =
2                   _XSERVTransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for local
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for local/BasicLinux:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for local
Fatal server error:
Failed to establish all listening sockets
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k net-pf-1, errno =
2                   _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for
local                                  _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient:
Unable to open socket for local                  _X11TransOpen: transport
open failed for local/BasicLinux:0                     giving up.
xinit:  Address family not supported by protocol
(errno 97):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

It took at least a minute for X to give up.

> >>>buying up 486's wherever I can find them.
> >>
> >>At the curb. People here are giving away 500Mhz pentiums.
> >
> >It'll take me a while to tune into the old computer scene. All
> >the stores I know push the new stuff and are scornful of the old
> >stuff.
> 
> Stores don't sell 486s.  Try yard sales, rummage sales, thrift shops, or 
> your local Freecycle or Craigslist.  Someone just offered a 566MHz 
> Emachine on ours.

That makes sense. Thanks. It's a new mode of operation for me.

Time to fire up the
4-wheeled-planet-killing-slave-financed-war-machine and report to
Korporate Amerika for a few hours. Got to pretend that I am actually
earning the incredible material over-abundance that owns me, like
all the rest of the world's Middle-Class elite.

Lee