Hi Robert,

Thanks for your detail advice and link.

The 1st problem encountered is to untar the package as follows;

# mkdir /home/satimis/kernel
downloaded
patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2   patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2
from kernel.org

# cd /home/satimis/kernel
# tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

# tar -jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

# tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

# tar -jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Could not proceed further. Kindly advise.

Thanks in advance.

B.R.
Stephen



Robert Crawford wrote:

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:50 pm, Stephen Liu wrote:


Hi Robert,





use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p alsa-driver, and you se the latest
is I seem to remember 0.9.7.





# emerge search kernel
* sys-kernel/genkernel   Latest version 1.8

From kernel.org
The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is:  *2.6.0-test8
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2>*
Can I upgrade it from the tarball to be download from kernel.org site?

Please give me more information about which Gentoo forum. I have been
looking around for this topic.


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stephen,
Here's the linkd to the Official Gentoo furum- It's huge, and you get great info for anything imaginable.


http://forums.gentoo.org/

Here's the link to a post I made on kernel 2.6.0-testx's, and installing it from vanilla source, with a step by step foolproof method, that never touches your present kernel setup.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=97910&highlight=

Since you mentioned alsa sound, you need to compile alsa stuff directly into the kernel, not as modules. My .config alsa section from 2.6.0-test8-mm1 is shown below, but you might like to say "Y" to more items than I did, and in the subsequent sound sections, say "Y" for your particular hardware. Then you should emerge alsa-utils and probably alsa-mixer, but don't emerge the Gentoo alsa drivers, because the 2.6 kernel provides those itself.

Robert Crawford

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
# CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
# CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y
# CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set
# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set





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