Re: [proaudio] Fixing rt-sources for splashutils compilation problem

[Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:46:45 +0200,
Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> SteelRage wrote:
> > Hi there to everyone
> >
> > when rt-sources-2.6.16-r29 are installed, the merge of 
> > splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1 fails, complaining about an error in input.h
> > the fix is quite easy (credits: 
> > http://www.helpfeeds.com/showthread.php?p=1139679):
> >
> > You can try to fix it manually by moving the line "#ifdef __KERNEL__" 
> > from somewhere (about line 839) right above the In-kernel definitions 
> > to a position before the declaration of struct input_device_id (about 
> > line 799) in the file usr/src/linux/include/linux/input.h from the 
> > kernel source tree.
> >
> > Beside Note: This seems to be fixed in 2.6.17
> >
> > Here there should be a patch:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=84477&action=view
> >
> > I tested it and now the merge of splashutils works.
> > greetz
> >
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> >
> applied thx
> 
> greetz
> Frieder
> 
I was trying that on my 2006.1 install yesterday. The problem I get is at the
kernel compilation failed early with this modification. So I set the file in
its original state and it compiled without problem. Have you try to compile a
kernel?

I have not applied the patch but only modified input.h by hand. Maybe at it is
something more in the patch.

I get one more problem with it. I have done a first kernel without bootsplah
and this one work fine. After that, I reinstalled the rt-sources with
fbsplash and vesafb-tng. As gensplash was not installed on the system, it was
necessary to modify input.h and run a make modules-prepare in the kernel tree.
It did it fine. But I get an error when compiling the kernel, so I reversed the
modification in input.h. Now, I get an error at boot time with this kernel
about a wrong module format or something like that. It appear to early in the
boot process and I don't find this error in my log files.

It is very strange because I have exactly the same kernel in my old install,
and it work like a charm. I want to unmerge rt-sources as well as the
lib/modules directory and remerge rt-sources and do a fresh kernel compil with
it. But I am busy with something else just now.

Ciao,
Dominique