On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:16 am, Joshua Banks wrote:

try   genkernel --config     and then make sure the cpu settings and modules 
you want are included.  Would be nice if genkernel had a man page or a -h or 
--help option!



> I just recently upgraded KDE from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3.  This went smoothly.
> I then upgraded my Kernel from 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 to 2.4.20-gentoo-r7.
>
> This is how I did the kernel upgrade.  (please let me know if there's a
> better way to do this. As I'm new to compiling the kernel and the upgrade
> didn't seem to load the settings that the other kernel was using)
>
> As root:
> cd /usr/src
> rm linux
> ln -s linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 linux
> cd linux
> mount /boot
> genkernel
>
> Once "genkernel" completes, I go to /grub/grub.conf and modify this so that
> its pointing to the newer upgraded kernel.
>
> Then,
> umount /boot
> reboot
>
> Now I must of done something wrong because then all of the sudden my
> desktop and icons are huge and chageing the resolution doesn't seem to do
> anything to make the overall desktop area smaller. I can manually adjust
> icon sizes and tool bar settings but it doesn't seem to allow me adjust the
> overall resolution. Even know I have it set for 1280x1024 24bit depth,
> everything is still as though I have the desktop set to 800x600.
>
> So I started digging around to check some logs and this is what I found.
>
> <> = my comments
> cat kdm.log
> etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: line 7: /usr/kde/3.1/bin/kdmdesktop: No such file or
> directory sessions: SessionTypes=Xsession,kde-3.1.2,kde-3.1.3,
> Changing kdmrc in /usr/kde/3.1
> Changing kdmrc in /usr
> <I have no idea what happened here and am not sure what needs to be done>
>
> modprobe: Can't locate module agpgart
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "agpgart"
> <why is this happening? It didn't happen before durning initial install>
>
> modprobe: Can't locate module radeon
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
> <Again I don't why this is happening now. How is it that when I built the
> kernel last time that it never complained about my radeon card?>
>
> Is there  a file still left around like kernel.config with the kernel
> settings from the kernel I was using before the upgrade.
>
> I'm really confused. Now when I look at the kernel with "genkernel
> --config" it lists my processor as i386 when I'm using an Intel PIII 666eb
> coppermine. There's also a ton of stuff that I believe that I could turn
> off but don't know if its safe or not.  I.E.. bluetooth, ir stuff, token
> ring, ect.. ect...
>
> I'm using PPP to get out to the internet and I have one nic card for the
> internal lan. I have a HP Deskjet printer via 25pin parallel cable and a
> 32MB ATI Radeon vid card.
>
> When I did the intial install everything seemed to go very smoothly. After
> that I emerged KDE which loaded Xfree as well and then used "XFree86
> -configure" to create an XF86Config file and am using KDM as my display
> manager.
>
> What did I do wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Joshua Banks
>
>
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