Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-07 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/4 Harry Putnam : > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me.  I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > I tried closely comparing the current working ker

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
> And on a reasonably new version of pciutils... > lcpci -k > lists devices and drivers, less extras to dig through. > > -- > Poison [BLX] > Joshua M. Murphy > That should, of course, be lspci, not lcpci... -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag 03 November 2009 23:29:59 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> The thing is, I cannot find the culprit.  For example, examining the >> PIIX items in the working kernel and inserting here: > > Still the (IMHO) best way is to boot a LiveCD,

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 03 November 2009 23:29:59 schrieb Harry Putnam: > The thing is, I cannot find the culprit. For example, examining the > PIIX items in the working kernel and inserting here: Still the (IMHO) best way is to boot a LiveCD, run "lspci -vv" (two times "v") and write down which hardware i

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > So I'm back in the soup. > [I hope what I try to layou

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES. Also, you need to compile in the filesystem, not as module.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
091103 Harry Putnam wrote: > building a new kernel has always been a problem for me. > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. I find it doable with a bit of care (smile). > After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4 > I started with `make oldconfig' > Moved from that to `make