[Arm-netbook] compiling xserver-kdrive (or maybe xserver-xfbdev) on CT-PC89E

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:50:09PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> i've decided that xorg is using up far too much valuable space, and am
> going to compile xfbdev or maybe kdrive, for debian/lenny.  it's
> already available for debian/testing but DO NOT use it because it will
> require udev 0.125 and that will screw up your system, thanks to it
> being incompatible with 2.6.24 kernels (which we can't change right
> now)
> 
> so i've made some tiny modifications to debian/rules of
> xserver-xorg-core 1.4.2 to enable creation of xserver-xfbdev package,
> will see what happens.
> 
> to get round the problem of not enough space, i'm building it over nfs
> (!!) which seems to work fine: the only thing that's very important is
> that the host _must_ use nfs-kernel-server because nfs-user-server
> cannot set mtime timestamps: that screws up the "touch" command, which
> in turn screws up configure scripts.
> 
> other than that, i appear to be keeping this machine thoroughly busy,
> loadaverage 3.5, no swap, still seems to be happy.
> 
> l.
> 
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I'm just wondering whether I can use a Sheevaplug to bootstrap a current 
kernel / xorg for this machine :)

If I can build enough on a 4G disk then essentially, you can use that to 
run the machine :) It does have chroot, so could potentially chroot to a 
4G SD card.

All the besst,

AndyC