On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, David Fellows<fell...@unb.ca> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:15 -0400 > "John P. Burkett" wrote - >> Drake Donahue wrote: >> > Burkett asked: >> > >> > Should I back up any particular files before doing "emerge >> > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"? You will simply be restoring the >> > bits that depclean removed. >> > >> > No files should need to backed up. >> >> Thank you David. Doing >> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2 >> produced the following response >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy >> "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2" > > That is true. 2.6.22 has been removed from the portage tree. Your choices are: > 1) to find some one who still has the 2.6.22-r2 ebuild and the corrresponding > sources and patches and create an overlay from them, then use that to > emerge from. > > 2) find someone who still has the top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2 who will > send it to you. And hope that that is all you are missing. > > 3) Upgrade to a newer kernel. Presumably the latest stable that is compatible > with your desired driver version. > > Realistically 3 is your only reasonable option. The downside is you will have > to do a kernel configuration that is consistent with your existing > configuration. > > You will want to read the kernel upgrade guide first. > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml > > Remember that emerging a kernel source only installs the source files. > Compiling the kernel is another step. You may already have a suitable kernel > source emerged. eselect kernel list will show which are emerged as will > ls -l /usr/src > >> >> I also tried >> emerge -s gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2-osmp >> and a few other variations without finding any ebuilds. > > The osmp is a local identifying tag specified by the person that built > your kernel. The smp probably means symetric multiprocessor. No idea > what the o stands for. > >> >> Ideas about how to emerge the sources would be very welcome. >> > > > Dave F
I haven't followed this thread so I'll reread it to get caught up. However I've found with ati-drivers that you have to be VERY careful. I have two Asus Pundit-R boxes which use the ATI driver so that I can get video out on s-video. The problem is that I'm stuck - to the best of my knowledge - with the following pair: myth12 ~ # eix -Ic ati-drivers [D] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (8.28.8...@05/19/07 -> (~)8.28.8!s): Ati precompiled drivers for recent chipsets myth12 ~ # uname -a Linux myth12 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #2 PREEMPT Sat May 19 17:55:30 PDT 2007 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux myth12 ~ # The issue is that ATI dropped support for my onboard video chip with anything later than 8.28.8 and that won't work with anything newer than 2.6.19. Portage removed everything from my system at one point so I had to dig around for a while to get copies and then masked everything higher to stop updates. If that kernel/driver pair would do you any good - doubtful - then let me know. Cheers, Mark
