On Thu, January 13, 2005 7:59, Me said: > Charlie~ > Thanks very much for the sanity check. > > I looked at using make oldconfig, since I've made a few changes to the > existing kernel, and didn't want to have to 'rememeber' to make all of > those > changes again.
If you'd like, you can run 'make menuconfig' after oldconfig to see if there's any new bleeding egde-super options that you might be interested to activate. > I didn't know that the emerge was only for 2.4 kernels. But, under 2.6, > for > some reason, I couldn't seem to get sound working at the commandline, and > by > removing the sound from the kernel and going through the steps in the alsa > gentoo guide, I was able to get it running (and through some additional > googling, set the asound.state file to keep it running on reboot). I've never had any problem with native 2.6-ALSA, but I've emerged theese packages (not needed to re-emerege after kernel-updates): alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-tools > Yeah, I knew the arch/i386... path, I just didn't want to type it all out > ;) heh :p > Being able to boot back to the 2.6.9 kernel is what I'm trying to do with > as > a part of this exercise. I had a serious problem develop on my first > install, which got so out of hand, that I re-installed. I just don't want > that problem again. > > That's the one thing I really like about gentoo. This user-list and the > irc > channel seem to be the most helpful places in the world. As soon as I can, > I'm dumping my windows boxes entirely and staying with gentoo. > > Regards, > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Gehlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel update > > On Thu, January 13, 2005 7:26, Me said: >> I currently have 2.6.9-r9, and recently did emerge -uD world. I got an >> updated set of kernel headers (2.6.8-r2) and an updated set of >> development >> sources (2.6.10-r4). In order to use the new kernel and save the 2.6.9 >> (just in case), I think that I need to do: >> make oldconfig > > I myself prefer the 'make menuconfig' config. > >> make modules_install >> emerge alsa-driver (according to the alsa gentoo doc, it says that >> whenever >> you re-compile kernel sources, this should be done - hopefully, my >> /etc/asound.state, make.conf and modules.d/alsa files will be left >> intact) > > This applies if you're using a 2.4-kernel. In 2.6, use the native > ALSA-drivers (available under Sound). > >> cp bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.10-r4 > > arch/i386/boot/bzImage, but I'm sure you'll find it anyway > >> cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.10-r4 >> cp /usr/src/2.6.10/.config /boot/config-2.6.10-r4 >> edit grub.conf to add the new kernel version >> rm -f /usr/src/linux >> ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r4 /usr/src/linux >> >> I don't think I've left anything out. any input is greatly appreciated. > > IF anything didn't go well, you can always boot back to the previuos > kernel (if you kept it in grub.conf) > >> I'm >> somewhat new at this and don't want to have to redo anything I don't >> have >> to. >> > > Don't worry, plenty of help out here :) > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > > /Charlie > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
