[ale] miscellaneous questions

[Jeff Hubbs]

Ben -

I'm trying to deal with this kernel compiling business myself - no success
yet.

There's a text file that winds up in /usr/src/linux/Documentation after
untarring called Changes and it goes over all the OTHER things that must be at
a particular rev level for compiling to work.  I gave up and decided I would
try to recompile my orig kernel and wrestle with that later.

- Jeff

Ben Phillips wrote:

> * How do you make the PC speaker stop beeping?  Is there a /dev/????? from
> which I can divert input?
>
> * 'ls' question:  What possible causes might there be for the
> /etc/DIR_COLORS to be partially ignored?  Colorized 'ls' is working for
> directories and executables, but not for things that correspond to file
> extension.  DIR_COLORS isn't being usurped by an environment variable
> belonging to the user, because I can type 'set' and LS_COLORS doesn't come
> up as a defined variable.
>
> * I'm new to Red Hat.  When I installed new kernel source using an RPM, it
> screwed up somehow.  I infer this from the fact that kernel compiles fail
> now -- and for that matter, so does an ssh compile (!).  How would you go
> about trying to fix what happened without messing up rpm's business?
>
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