David Fellows wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:58:59 -0400 > "John P. Burkett" wrote - >> Thank you, David. >> >> David Fellows wrote: >>> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:15 -0400 >>> "John P. Burkett" wrote - >>>> Drake Donahue wrote: >>>>> Burkett asked: >>>>> >>> 2) find someone who still has the top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2 who wil >> l >>> send it to you. And hope that that is all you are missing. >> This appears to be the easiest short term solution. In looking for the >> top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2, do I need to specify that it is to be >> used on an amd64 machine or should I expect that any such file might >> work on amd64 architecture? > > The Makefile should be architecture independent. I guess you can download one > of the 2.6.22 series of kerenl sources from > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ > unpack it somewhere and copy the Makefile. > > > There is a sequence of 2.6.22 kernels starting with 2.6.22 and proceeding > 2.6.22.1, 2.6.22.2, ... > Which one of those correspods most closely to gentoo 2.6.22-r2 I don't know. > Obviously those that come after the date (uname -a) that your kerenl was built > are not of interest. > > Hmm. Just looked at my own Makefile again. It begins: > > VERSION = 2 > PATCHLEVEL = 6 > SUBLEVEL = 27 > EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r8 > NAME = Rotary Wombat > > my uname -a gives > Linux kanga 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 ...... > It is remotely possible that the driver install is just using the Makefile > for the version info to compare it against the currently running kernel > version. in which case you could try creating a Makefile that just contains > the first four lines above that match your kerenl version. Probably you would > drop the -osmp since that is "EXTRAEXTRAVERSION". > > The NAME value is likely irrelevant. > > It would be easy to try. And should do no harm if it fails. > > But you are using chewing gum and baling wire to fix this.
Thank you, David. The 2.6.22 Makefile I copied from another machine (as described in my previous note) starts as follows: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 22 EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r2 NAME = Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! As reported in my last note, putting that in my linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 directory does not suffice to let "emerge ati-drivers" succeed. My latest experiment was editing the Makefile, changing the fourth line from EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r2 to EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r2-osmp After making that change, I again tried emerge ati-drivers The response was the familiar * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Could not detect kernel version. * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a complete set of Linux sources. * * ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 failed. I wonder why "emerge ati-drivers" still does not detect the kernel version. Best regards, John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
