Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-09 20:02 +0100, lee wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> > Create new default link to new source code >> >> This is absolutely unnecessary and maybe even harmful. Read the README >> in the Linux kernel tree why you should not do it. > > The NV

Re: Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-09 Thread lee
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Create new default link to new source code > > This is absolutely unnecessary and maybe even harmful. Read the README > in the Linux kernel tree why you should not do it. The NVIDIA driver doesn't install when it wants to comp

Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-08 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:45:08 +0100 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-12-08 23:01 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Sven Joachim: > >> Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your > >> old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd to the kernel directory. >

Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-08 23:01 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Sven Joachim: >> Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your >> old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd to the kernel directory. > > The copy should be unnecessary as long as the current config is > available from /p

Re: Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sven Joachim: > >> Create a new config file based on the old one, this will prompt for new >> configuration settings. Read carefully every question. >> root# make oldconfig > > Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your > old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd t

Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
I feel the need to correct a few bad ideas here. On 2008-12-08 21:53 +0100, subscriptions wrote: > Download the source code and unpack Note, none but one of the steps below require root privileges if you are a member of the `src' group or perform them below your home directory instead of /usr/sr