On Monday 17 May 2010, Ed Greshko wrote: >On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until >>>> somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my >>>> specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will >>>> not run for anybody but root. >>> >>> And this is a bad thing? I, for one, don't want some low-level user >>> installing a kernel on my machines. I don't want them installing >>> ANYTHING that's global. >> >> +1 > >I get the feeling that Gene isn't talking about the actual installation >of the initrd image. Feeling Ed? I have written this very plainly, several times. But W/O exceptions here, everyone is assuming that I am installing a kernel from fedora, which is as yet useless on this machine. I have an rv610 based ATI video card, and it has been doing an extremely obnoxious fits of self blanking anytime something touches the right edge of the screen since I built this box about 2 years ago now. ONLY the 2.6.34(-rcN), and now 2.6.34 final have the drm fixes that stop that. The CCFL's in this monitor have somehow survived all the flashing, but the power supply that drives them has had to be rebuilt, the caps went south. And with 2.6.34 final, I now have a pulseaudio that is 99% usable, not lost in stuttering, clicking and popping. >I think he is wondering why something like... > >mkinitrd /tmp/xxx 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE But that kernel will not run my video card well enough to be able to scroll thru an email message and read it. For every 1 line text scroll attempted, its a good long second to repaint the screen, excruciatingly distracting. >needs root privileges to run. Is there anything inherently wrong is >expecting that to work? > Exactly Ed. My question precisely. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) checkuary, n: The thirteenth month of the year. Begins New Year's Day and ends when a person stops absentmindedly writing the old year on his checks. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
