Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

Dumont is now back online, thanks to AusPC Market and AAE. I feel whole again.

Better still, I finally nailed how to get the vt1211 kernel module installed so I can check the temperature of the processor and so forth. I know this probably sounds sooo easy for everyone else but I'll record it here so I can remember it later...

1. Grab the latest version of the vt1211.c source from Lars Ekman's vt1211 page.
2. Use the make-vt1211.sh script which I wrote, which contains the commands to make the module against the current kernel source that are in Lars' page.
3. Install the kernel module by copying it into the kernel's device module heirarchy:
   cp -p vt1211.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2069_FC4/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/
4. depmod
5. modprobe vt1211

Now if only I can get the Via Unichrome X drivers installed, it'll be complete. It might even be capable of running a MythTV frontend!

I've also found that scourge of repositories, atrpms (fx: ptui!), has kept its ghastly stranglehold on my base repository, and it's continued to load base modules from atrpms. I can see why people say that the only way to get rid of it is to reinstall from scratch. And so we continue with another round of beating its yum configuration into submission...