Am Samstag 31 Oktober 2009 22:03:03 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Yes, almost every app that installs kernel drivers will go to
/usr/src/linux/ looking for kernel sources
Nope. They look into $KBUILD_OUTPUT and $KERNEL_DIR, which both default to
/usr/src/linux.
Bye...
Dirk
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On 10/31/2009 06:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about
it a few times.
At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion
of the
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the kernel you are running is not entirely correct. It is
required only when you want to build something
On 10/31/2009 08:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the kernel you are running is not entirely correct. It is
On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:09:37 Harry Putnam wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the kernel you are running is not entirely
On 10/31/2009 09:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:09:37 Harry Putnam wrote:
Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-)
Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe.
But I might yet acquire full rights to it..
So, is the symlink not really necessary? Doe something look at
/usr/src/linux for files?
For example, if
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:00:35 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So, to sum it up, when you update to a new kernel, first update the
symlink (or let the ebuild take care of it), build the kernel, boot it,
*then* rebuild external modules (like ati-drivers). If you know what
you're doing, you
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:06:35 Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-)
Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe.
But I might yet acquire full rights to it..
So, is the symlink not really necessary?
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3
installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against
each kernel you want to use it with (nvidia-drivers builds and installs a
kernel driver
On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3
installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against
each kernel you want to use it with
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3
installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:43:21 Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also
On 10/31/2009 04:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the
other files - System.map and something else
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:40 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/31/2009 04:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do
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