From: "Thomas Hertweck"
david rankin wrote:
From: "Thomas Hertweck"
[... create link linux->linux-2.6.20 ...]
That should not be necessary.
Sorry, everything I have read, said do it, so I just did it....
In principle, the link "/usr/src/linux" is not required at all and has
mainly historical reasons. It's nowadays only used for convenience.
[...]
The machine boots just fine on 2.6.20.6 and 2.6.20.7, the only problems
are
(1) keyboard; (2) mouse; and (3) network. Everything else works fine
(Apache, MySQL, smb, nmb, sata, etc.......)
Well, you cloned the old configuration, so all that stuff that worked in
the old kernel should be available in the new kernel as well. However,
it does not work at the moment, so there must be a problem which indeed
could be related....
o udev 081 # udevinfo -V
...to udev. udev is responsible for creating and removing device nodes,
renaming network interfaces, etc. If devices were missing, then this
would of course explain why some of your components (mouse, etc.) do not
work. However, other components seem to work, so it's not failing
completely or in a consistent way which does not allow any accurate
conclusion.
All your problematic components are hardware-related, so I am not
surprised that apache, mysql etc. work as expected - that's all pure
software, isn't it?
Out of the entire list, the only requirement I did not update was udev
because the documentation said it was not a good idea.
Well, udev is a core component and I would agree that messing around
with udev is not such a good idea ;-) I am not really sure what advice
to give in this situation, maybe others can contribute their point of
view in this discussion.
Thomas,
Thank you for your help along the way. This entire kernel building
process was undertaken just to get dri working. After building X, I have a
great looking 1680x1050 display (which is what started this whole process).
The only lingering kernel issue was drm/dri. In reality, I don't really need
dri. glxgears at 680 fps is just fine. I don't do video/gaming, etc..
However, I did learn a lot in the process. I know much more about the X
window system, mesa and drm. I now know how to build the kernel. I don't yet
know how to role my own udev on a vanilla kernel, but that will have to wait
for another day. I presume 10.3 will cure the remaining drm issue.
So all in all it was a successful exercise.
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