best of luck.Well, unfortunately lady luck has eluded me on this one. I have an nvidia graphics card and to be quite honest I don't know what the fudge-ripple icecream I'm doing! I have to patch the driver I think, but I don't really how or where, or whether I have downloaded the right things. There are lots of "required" things that have to be installed to do it properly - half of them aren't available in mdk rpms, which means finding them and installing from source. Not that hard, but do I really need to install the isdn support just to compile a kernel that will not have isdn support?
Is it time for another OSTC kernel compiling lesson? All afternoon one day.
And what about initrd? surely I need to do something with that. Not that I really know what it does apart from something to do with creating an initial ram-disk or something of that nature... My other two installed kernels (rh9 and mdk9.2 standards) have initrds and also system maps
And configuration! The "just get to it" philosophy is great. I really do like it and don't mind breaking things but I think that far too many people have configured far too many kernels and have forgotten just how completely bewildering the hundreds of options that may or may not be necessary for the kernel to work. Lots of options seem to default to values that the comments (make xconfig) say are NOT recommended! hmmmm. And what about the drivers. I can work out what I've got (lspci, etc) and have managed to unselect most of the hundreds of other useless drivers ( for me, again why the defaults?) but some things seem to be useful. What are these "useful things", oh that's easy, you just "know". Great.
I know kernel configuration is NOT a newbie thing to do and I am certainly still a newbie, but a kernel configuration session OSTC would be MOST appreciated!
Thanks and PLEASE FORGIVE my tone. I have just had a rather frustrating weekend of garbled screens full of errors when my spanking new 2.6.0s fail miserably!
Anton
