perhaps you did not include something that your hardware needed, like IDE
drives? Also, did you do that bit about "links to the header directories
must be symbolic links".. On my Mandrake 8, they were not symbolic, they
were real directories!
-t
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> Following the directions in the README, I
> make config
> make dep
> make bzImage
> According to the README, you're supposed to replace the exisiting kernel
> image with the new image. But the current image is simple a link to
> vmlinuz in /boot. So I copied the new image to /boot/vmlinux-2.4.4 and
> moved the link from linuz-2.3... to the new kernel image.
>
> Now my machine won't boot off of the new kernel. Fortunately, I had my
> recovery disk, but I obviously missed a step in there somewhere.
>
> At 03:15 PM 5/11/2001 +0300, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:
>
> >A success story: Kernel recompilation is very easy! I just did it :)
> >It comes with a great README, and I just followed it.
> >I had to re-install my linmodem (Thinkpads are blessed with linmodems!)
> >but that was the only thing.
> >
> >..and my Trackpoint mouse now works :)
> >
> >Thanks to everyone that helped!
> >-turgut
> >
> >-----
> >Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com
> >EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr
> >All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
> >
> >On 11 May 2001, Bartlomiej Muryn wrote:
> >
> > > On 10 May 2001 16:05:21 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > Can anyone offer an *easy* solution to the trackpoint mouse in
> > Mandrake 8
> > > > (Trackpoint mouse is seen as a PS/2 mouse in Windoze) ? I'm getting tired
> > > > of lugging the serial mouse around :)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, -turgut
> > > Yes - download the original kernel from www.kernel.org - compile it and
> > it will work automatically...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > _4ever_
> > >
> > >
>
