I have downloaded 3.12.5 and transferred the contents to a KINGSTON USB thumb drive. That is the very drive which I used last July to make my Linux Debian Wheezy.xeno74 wrote:
vmlinux-3.12.5AmigaOneX1000.tar.gz
New:
- added modules directory
- It based on the bug fix version of the vanilla kernel 3.12.5
- added kernel modul for 3Dfx video cards
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... go.svg.png
http://tdfx.de/pic/voodoo4_pci_01.JPG
Have a lot of fun with the new kernel.
I want Debian, but, as happened last summer, the keyboard is very rarely recognized after I type "boot ..." and I cannot begin the installation. I am open to a variety of suggestions about getting some/ any! /Linux distribution installed. **IF** the keyboard problem happens no matter which distribution I attempt to install, just how hard is it for me to get[add/compile_into] the Linux kernel to be MUCH more informative about the functionality of basic equipment?
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Much as my stock X1000 did at the end of this summer, the actions after "returning from prom_iinit" are unhelpful in diagnosing troubles. After removing my Compact Flash card and my PATA drive, but having added a twin-sister to the AmiKit 1 Terabyte SATA drive, the
boot -elf -noints -fatfs usbdisk0:vmlinux-3.12.5AmigaOneX1000/vmlinux-3.12.5
found my debian CD. It presented me with its [Select A Language] menu. It expects me to press <Enter>.
Alas, as was my trouble in the summer, no keystrokes have any effect. This summer after many arbitrary actions on many different days (nights, actually) my press of <Enter> just.... worked! I installed Debian (on the now defunct PATA drive), and I never looked back.
Now. Here I am again. Same frustrating hang. Last summer 4 different keyboards all gave the same zero results. My son suggested I disconnect the USB X1000 keyboard and reconnect it. That one time ****one lousy time**** the keyboard acted perfectly. I thanked him for the workaround, (foolishly) rebooted to AmigaOS4, berated this LinuxOnly forum for NOT suggesting this workaround, and went to sleep. That was no workaround. It never worked again. Does not work today.
From summer until Thanksgiving (USA holiday) I worked with Linux Debian Wheezy (LDW is my affectionate abbr.) learning, etc. One of my first actions was to transfer the /3.10.0X1000 to a Compact Flash. I never, ever had trouble with the CF. The PATA drive got worse and worse about spinning up until it refuses. It took a while to get a SATA drive, but I got it last week. When I tried to boot, the CF presented an i/o error. Reseating did not help. After also trying by way of removing the bad PATA drive and reboot with just the Debian CD, still the CF gives error 44. Thus, my regression to infancy (including tantrums).
ggw