On 10/27/05, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The pre-packaged kernel, kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8, does almost > what I want, but the nvidia drivers cannot be compiled against it > because there is a conflict between the framebuffer support in that > kernel and the nvidia module. After a lot of work trying to build a > suitable kernel myself, I can't see to be able to get it to work, so > I've decided to seek out a prebuilt image instead.
Just boot that kernel into text mode, extract the kernel source, copy the config file from the installed kernel, do a make oldconfig, and you should be ready to compile a new kernel. There were a few changes in 2.6.12, but nothing fatal that I could find. > Googling and search has been unsuccessful: I have been unable to find > any other kernel-image-*-amd64-k8 kernels to try: does anyone have any > unofficial kernel images that I may try? Note that kernels are called linux-image-* since 2.6.12! And there is most definitely a 2.6.12 around: http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/linux-image-2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 Recompiling is still a good idea. It makes sure that you have the right compiler installed (the one used to build the kernel). Thomas
