On 05/18/2010 10:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > Yes <sarcasm>*feeling*<\sarcasm>. I didn't want to be obnoxious, this time, and write something like..."Didn't you morons read what Gene has written". :-) > 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. > Which is why I said..."something *like*". :-) > >> needs root privileges to run. Is there anything inherently wrong is >> expecting that to work? >> >> > Exactly Ed. My question precisely. > > I think your answer is covered by the emergence of dracut. -- I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. -- Calvin 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北市八德路四段
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