On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Tom H <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Tom H <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> so how do i modify the kernel and recompile it in SL6? >> >> >> >> What steps are you following? >> >> >> >> Anything different or missing compared to >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel >> > >> > aha! looks like the guide i need. On my own i pretty much completed >> > everything up to "Configure Kernel Options" section of the guide. >> > Thank you Tom i'll give it a try tonight. >> >> You're welcome. Good luck. > > Last night finally got to this. > I followed the guide Tom shared. The only difference was that i did > everything using mock. All-in-all it was smooth sailing. The only change i > made to the current kernel config was compiling USB as module. > Compilation took over 2 hours > Today i installed this modified kernel and.. well, i have vlc, mplayer > showing some movies; firefox playing some youtube,; yum updating packages > and me clicking with the mouse on the screen hoping for it to go kaboom... > So far ( 2 hours now ) it's still going all right.
Excellent for you! Can you post a diff between your .config file and the standard /boot/config-[whatever] configuration file, for our reference? Did you build a tweaked RPM, or simply install from the "mock" environment?
