On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:50:43 +1200 Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Last reply to myself on this one, promise... > > The bug note for Ubuntu below mentioned a kernel package that I could > not find, so I wound up rolling my own from the 2.6.25.4 source from > kernel.org. > > It fixed the problem with my USB palm device, although the first build I > did didn't have my sound card module, so I had to do it twice. > > What was really interesting is that it takes _forever_ to compile a > 2.6.X kernel, this was the first time I've done one. After 30 minutes > watching it and doing some other stuff I walked away to do something > else. Must have taken about an hour or so. (On a dual core P4 3.06) Is > that normal for the 2.6.x kernels? > > Cheers, Me. Yup! Note that unless you tell it otherwise ( -J 2 ) the make is single threaded. I tend to make -J 2 then make, just to ensure that everything was built in the correct order. OK, so I'm paranoid. But that's much, much better than the compile times for 2.0 kernels on 386es, I can assure you! Steve
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