[Tfug] Just starting - need help

[Christopher Robbins]

Joe -

I could help you out.  How much work are we looking at?

-Chris

On 10/2/06, Joe Blais <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com> wrote:
>
> I need help!
>
> I'm new to Linux (about 2 weeks) and I NEED to learn how to compile a
> kernel, (start by compiling the compiler even!), Draw a button on the
> screen, get a mouse event and finally, make an install image.  We are
> building a chemistry instrument, and just starting out in Linux, and
> I need to do the controls for the thing.
>
> I think I can figure the stuff out eventually, but we are working on a new
> project that we want running by December - of this year - and as I'm
> getting older, learning this is getting slower!
>
> We got a pc/104 card - Intel x86 type of thing - from Octagon.  We were
> supplied the source to the kernel, a bootable CD, and that's about it.
> They don't help with software other than, just go - "find it on the
> web"....
>
> Do you know of anyone who knows about this type of stuff, who would be a
> consultant ($) that could get me through the first (and probably some
> more) hurdles?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
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Chris Robbins
Dept. of English Technical Support
http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net