On Monday 18 August 2008, Larry Finger wrote: >Holger Schurig wrote: >> Huh? I use "make install modules_install" from my kernel source >> dir (which I usually get via git) and that works fine, as in >> every distro on earth. >> >> Hehe, but I seldom use distro kernels, not even when I used Red >> Hat or Mandrake in old times :-) > >I tried that with Ubuntu 8.04 and the resulting kernel wouldn't boot. >Only when I went through the process of making the ".deb" and >installing that did the new kernel start properly. I didn't >investigate it thoroughly as I was only testing one patch - I quickly >fled back to openSUSE. > >Larry
I've been doing that for years, Larry. I use a couple of scripts that I edit the version & patch names in, one to build the src tree, and one to actually do the compile & install, leaving me to edit grub.conf/menu.lst. I can fwd them if you like. Currently running 2.6.27-rc3, much smoother than any fedora released kernel. Which I did try for about 12 hours recently, just long enough for the nvidia driver to scribble all over the system and when I had re-installed the radeon card, I had a goodly amount of my .kde to recover from amanda's carefully kept backups. !*&%$^%&@ nvidia crap drivers. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
