-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> >> Hi Prarit, >> >> My Linux partition on the laptop seems to be hosed so it's a good >> opportunity for me to try this fix. I'm pretty inexperienced at >> patching kernels (read: Never done it!) so baby steps to tell me >> what to do would be appreciated. >> > > Hi Julian, > > 1. Download the latest kernel from kernel.org > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 > > 2. After saving this on your system, execute > > bunzip2 linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 > tar -xvf linux-2.6.16.tar > > This will create a linux-2.6.16 directory. > > 3. Apply the attached patch by doing > > cd linux-2.6.16 > patch -p1 < /path_to_the_patch/patch > > 4. Copy the attached x86_64_config to linux-2.6.16/.config > > (The config is a config from Fedora ... so you may see a few errors > during the make oldconfig phase below.... ) > > 5. Execute make oldconfig, make modules, make modules_install, make > install. > > 6. Modify your bootloader to boot the new kernel. > > P. Hi Prarit, Thanks for the excellent instructions :) Steps 1 and 2 complete. Step 3 falls over with the error: can't find file to patch at input line 140 the text leading up to this was: - -------------------------------------------------------- |- - - drivers/pci/Makefile 2006/04/05 14:25:29 1.1 |- - - drivers/pci/Makefile 2006/04/05 14:27:18 - -------------------------------------------------------- Then it prompts for the file to patch. Those lines are right at the bottom of the patch and are followed by: @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ obj-y += syscall.o endif +obj-m += fixup-parent-busses.o + ifeq ($(CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG),y) EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DDEBUG endif Kind regards, Julian PS Apologies for any typoes. On the laptop the trackpad now refuses to work after the reinstall so I'm obliged to type everything out instead of copy/paste from the Console. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFENTtFjs/5IBdCO1ERAtLYAJ9JoSOLa6Bna0BCGY4xb3cAERyN9QCfWMa7 mJ/sTwiGUBHA2QZu3tiEUdY= =29fp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
