Re: [expert] linux 2.4.1

2001-02-17 Thread Altoine B. 

William Schwartz wrote:
 
 What all other rpm's did you have to update?  I thought there was a few
 things other than the kernel you had to upgrade.
 
 Bill
 
 Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
 
  On Wednesday 14 February 2001 15:24, William Schwartz declaimed unto the
  faithful:
   I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's
   a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel.
  
  
   thanks,
   Bill
 
  I am running 2.4.1 on 7.2 without any problems. I used the kerenel-2.4.1 rpms
  from Cooker for the update.
 
  Sujeet
 
 
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Yes, I had problems using the mandrake source for any 2.4.1 src packages
above 3mdk. I decided to look into the exit status and find where it
chokes. The lm_sensors-2.5.5 is what was my problem. I looked into the
commands and it would say that "bison" (command) was not found. I did a
rpm query for bison and discovered that I didnt' have it, so I
downloaded it and reran the compile. Same place different command. This
time "flex" was not there. Of course, I didn't have that so I downloaded
it and installed it and ran the compile again. Hopefully, it will run
all the way through but I am certain that no matter the dependency, I
will get the Mandrake kernel source to once again compile on my machine.
Same area of the kernel, I find that I also need Yacc. Got it next?...
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Re: [expert] linux 2.4.1

2001-02-14 Thread Sujeet Bhatt 

On Wednesday 14 February 2001 15:24, William Schwartz declaimed unto the 
faithful:
 I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's
 a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel.


 thanks,
 Bill

I am running 2.4.1 on 7.2 without any problems. I used the kerenel-2.4.1 rpms 
from Cooker for the update.

Sujeet

Re: [expert] linux 2.4.1

2001-02-14 Thread Daniel B. Haun 

On Wednesday 14 February 2001 17:01, you wrote:
 On Wednesday 14 February 2001 15:24, William Schwartz declaimed unto the

 faithful:
  I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's
  a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel.
 
 
  thanks,
  Bill

 I am running 2.4.1 on 7.2 without any problems. I used the kerenel-2.4.1
 rpms from Cooker for the update.

 Sujeet

  I am curious... did you just use the "Mandrake Update" utility to update 
the kernnel or did you download the files seperately and do the "normal"
kernel building process, ( all that "make-stuff", etc etc... )?

 daniel... curious in NJ... :)

Re: [expert] linux 2.4.1 and another question

2001-02-14 Thread Neal Lippman 

On Wednesday 14 February 2001 16:24, William Schwartz wrote:
 I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's
 a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel.


 thanks,
 Bill

I was able to get to 2.4.1  by d/l'ing the source from www.kernel.org and 
compiling it myself. Detailed instructions on this can be found in the kernel 
HowTo. The only thing missing from the howto that you need to do is that in 
addition to copying the kernel from .../arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot (and 
naming it something that makes sense like "vmlinuz-2.4.1", you also need to 
copy System.map to something like /boot/System.map-2.4.1 as well. 

Here's another related question for those in the group that I am confused 
about. For various purposes, including compiling various software packages, 
you need to have the correct kernel headers in /usr/src/linux/include. I 
currently, for instance, have the 2.2.17 ones that came with the MDK 7.2 
iso's. Of course, now that I am running on 2.4.1 the headers should differ a 
bit, but so far everything seems to work ok without updating /usr/src/include.

I am concerned because I want to upgrade to X 4.0.2 and install the nvidia 
drivers from their website. The very detailed instructions on the nvidia 
website make a point of stating that you need to  have the correct kernel 
header files available for the compile, though. I wonder if I need to copy 
the 2.4.1 include files into /usr/src and relink to them?

OTOH, I was recently pointed to a posting somewhere that said that you don't 
need to keep upgrading the header files. It make the point that even Linus is 
running the latest (obviously) kernel with older header files, but of course 
HIS were 2.3.x, which are likely to be closer to 2.4 than the 2.2.x headers. 
So, do I need to upgrade them, or not?

Neal

Re: [expert] linux 2.4.1

2001-02-14 Thread William Schwartz 

What all other rpm's did you have to update?  I thought there was a few
things other than the kernel you had to upgrade.

Bill

Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
 
 On Wednesday 14 February 2001 15:24, William Schwartz declaimed unto the
 faithful:
  I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's
  a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel.
 
 
  thanks,
  Bill
 
 I am running 2.4.1 on 7.2 without any problems. I used the kerenel-2.4.1 rpms
 from Cooker for the update.
 
 Sujeet