On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:49:15 -0400 "John P. Burkett" wrote - > > 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. > Don't really know.
You have verified that /usr/src/linux is a symlink to linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 haven't you? If the top level MAkefile is missing, there could be any number of other files missing. You might look in /usr/portage/distfiles to see if you still have the distributioon files ls linux* and look for 2.6.22 and ls genpat* and likewise. If you do at least you could recreate the patched source tree manually. First rename your existing linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 to something else. After you unpack and apply patches, copy your .config file into the new. make oldconfig, make and so on. Install this kernel into /boot and update grub accordingly. Boot into it. emerge your ati driver. I am afreaid I have runn out of advice. Dave F
