X11r6

[vivekvyaskrv]

HI to all
Please apologies if I post the Q in wrong place

my name is vivek

i am using elx(everyone's linux) distro
i recently upgrade
gcc 3.2.xx to 3.6.x to 4.0.1 to 4.2.0
with that i compiled
linux-2.6.22 kernel (that was hard for me)

and after that
just at first boot(udghatan)
at
checking new hardware...
i got kudzu(terminal mode)
which says
intel-snd-intel-8x0(ac97,alsa can detect but can't use as it is old as kernel2.4.x)
intel-fb(my linux on kde shows vesa driver with 8MB(approx) Memeory)

the following thing done
alsa driver 1.0.9
alsa firmware
but utils cant want xmlto and xmlto(some information) says u Debian not supported please use fedora(huh elx derived from RHEL3)
and for i915 chipset
i try to install X11R^ 6.9.0
via manual configuration(host.def from linux.cf)
but make World>World.log(from build)
the command stucked and not get completed
i am not taking too much

Q.what i do for alsa to do sound
Q how to work with host.def(i installed all fntconfig zlib pngs and also set in the file but OSVender and few othat ??)

Please help cause i am just 17 year old BOY

[vivekvyaskrv]

oh its very tough Question i thinks i need to make the story smaller
and find the right place on site to pu Question

[reed9]

It's unfortunately a little difficult to understand what exactly you're asking.

But the bigger problem is that you're using a very very old, unsupported, and discontinued linux distribution, that most people have probably never heard of. The best solution is to install a modern distro, since there have been whole lot of changes since 2004 when ELX was last released.

[vivekvyaskrv]

Matter is not that of using modern linux as i have 2 hardisk (1 is 40GB(ELX) and other is 80GB(OpenSuse)) the matter is that how i can upgrade a distro
how hardware get worked in front of my eyes as if i can upgrade a system then i think i can know better how it works
as other operating system is just a double click to install a driver the linux come a package of full support (your hard disk also work with other sys config.)
and install them is big challange

i think that the package linux kernel, ALSA, X11R6 are interdependent miss one of that may cause driver lead to unsupport one

in Short,
its not matter to take a distro dedicated to hardware
how to make a distro to be dedicated to hardware
cause if i not do that i definitly need 11.1 version for new kernel

sorry for my bad english
i hope you understand my feelings/thought
and thanks for reply