[SOLVED] Re: How to create a kernel package

2022-10-07 Thread Hans
Hi all, thanks for pointing me to the wiki and the hint with the script. Yes, in the meantime things have changed, I was not aware of the bindep-pkg command. I looked into the manual, but this specific command I did not find, but lots of very usefull other descriptions. So, this little

Re: How to create a kernel package

2022-10-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
Hans wrote: I want to create a kernel package, which I can install with dpkg. There was a command doing it instead of "make && make install", and I could not find it any more. Last time I did it is a long time ago. Does someone know? I also don't remember the old command,

Re: How to create a kernel package

2022-10-07 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 10/7/22 11:00, Hans wrote: Hi folks, some easy questions. I want to create a kernel package, which I can install with dpkg. There was a command doing it instead of "make && make install", and I could not find it any more. Last time I did it is a long time ago. Does some

How to create a kernel package

2022-10-07 Thread Hans
Hi folks, some easy questions. I want to create a kernel package, which I can install with dpkg. There was a command doing it instead of "make && make install", and I could not find it any more. Last time I did it is a long time ago. Does someone know? Second question:

Re: Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

2017-06-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
e target, you can download the package in unstable and install it. Care must be taken when mixing distributions, but looking at the dependencies (https://packages.debian.org/sid/kernel-package) one can see that there are no specific versions required, and all the dependencies are for fai

Re: Re: Re: Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

2017-06-20 Thread Karsten Wemheuer
Hi Darac, thanks again. I wasn't aware of the new target "make deb-pkg". Best regards, Karsten

Re: Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

2017-06-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-06-20 11:26 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:05:01PM +0200, Karsten Wemheuer wrote: >>Hi Darac, >> >>> It's a bug. The package tracker page for kernel-package >>> <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kernel-package> states that 

Re: Re: Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

2017-06-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:05:01PM +0200, Karsten Wemheuer wrote: Hi Darac, It's a bug. The package tracker page for kernel-package <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kernel-package> states that  the package was removed from strech because the new version  introduced a new, serious-lev

Re: Re: Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

2017-06-20 Thread Karsten Wemheuer
Hi Darac, > It's a bug. The package tracker page for kernel-package > <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kernel-package> states that  > the package was removed from strech because the new version  > introduced a new, serious-level bug: #848066. The bug was not fixed > in tim

Re: Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

2017-06-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:26:26AM +0200, Karsten Wemheuer wrote: Hi *, I just want to do some tests with kernels in "stretch" and therefore was looking for packet "kernel-package". But  apt install kernel-package leads to  E: Package 'kernel-package'

Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

2017-06-20 Thread Karsten Wemheuer
Hi *, I just want to do some tests with kernels in "stretch" and therefore was looking for packet "kernel-package". But  apt install kernel-package leads to  E: Package 'kernel-package' has no installation candidate Is this a bug or is kernel building

For those of you having trouble with kernel-package and Linux V3 ...

2011-08-09 Thread Stephen Powell
For those of you having trouble with kernel-package and Linux Version 3, I have an unofficial patch that may solve your problems, particularly if you have CONFIG_LGUEST set in the kernel config file or you are trying to build a headers package. The patch is available here: http

how do patches get to Debian kernel package?

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Copper
Hi Debian users, Upgrading from old stable (Lenny) to stable (Squeeze) broke X on my machine. The problem centers around the video chip on the Asus M2A-VM motherboard, and, perhaps the attached Samsung monitor attached. I am not certain, but I believe this discussion at lkml.org pertains:

kernel-package: 2.6.37 kernelrelease target no longer works

2011-01-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
I've built a new 2.6.37 kernel with kernel-package where I use an --append-to-version option to add a hostname a build number. Due to a change in the kernel Makefile, make kernelrelease no longer gets the kernel release from include/config/kernel.release , but instead uses scripts/setlocalversion

RE: make-kpkg (from kernel-package) does not build xen patched kernel

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
Going to try a make-file patch when I get some time. The patch was offered from a user on the Xen-user mailing list. [1] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-09/msg00396.html -M Subject: make-kpkg (from kernel-package) does not build xen

make-kpkg (from kernel-package) does not build xen patched kernel

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Viau
and the kernel-package is not applicable (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574957) It seems that when the kernel_image target is used, a System.map-2.6.34.4-xen can not be generated, and therefore a FATAL error causes the make-kpkg process to fail! A System.map-2.6.34.4-xen can

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-04-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 05:01:03 +0100, Jen wrote: I am blind, so selecting the kernel from the grub prompt is not possible. I want to use the new kernel (not trunk) as my default. OK, now I understand your problem. It is unfortunate that the trunk version slipped into the normal repository and

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-30 Thread Jen
. Thanks for any help or suggestions, Jen. -- From: Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package? __ Information

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-25 Thread Jen
to. Cheers, Jen. -- From: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 2:45 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package? On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:51:25 -0400 (EDT), Jen wrote

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-25 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jen fluffy_bunny_1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I've installed linux-image-2.6.32-4-i686, but I can't boot in to the new kernel. I have also installed the latest version of grub. What do I now have to do to get my machine to boot from the new kernel? I've been told

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:26 -, Jen wrote: I've installed linux-image-2.6.32-4-i686, but I can't boot in to the new kernel. I have also installed the latest version of grub. I think I don't quite understand you. Stephen and I have pointed out the reasons *why* the -trunk- kernel is still

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-24 Thread Jen
Hello, I have the latest version of the Kernel package installed, and have grub2. Can you please tell me what I need to modify in order to get my machine to boot from the 2.6.32-4-i686? Thanks, Jen. -- From: Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:51:25 -0400 (EDT), Jen wrote: Hello, I have the latest version of the Kernel package installed, and have grub2. Can you please tell me what I need to modify in order to get my machine to boot from the 2.6.32-4-i686? Thanks, Jen. I'm not sure what you're

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Jen
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Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Jen fluffy_bunny_1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hello, I can't read your message. I'm not sure if its because of the screen reading software I'm using, so could you send it in plain text, in case it's my accessibility software? Cheers, Jen! snip Hey, Its a

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 21:33 -, Jen wrote: Hello, I can't read your message. I'm not sure if its because of the screen reading software I'm using, so could you send it in plain text, in case it's my accessibility software? Well, no idea why you couldn't read it. The only thing i can

Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-21 Thread Jen
Hello, I have installed the Kernel package Linux-image-2.6.32-4, but can't automatically boot from it. I thought I could just change the default number in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but the new kernel package is not listed in this file. Can I manually ad its details, and assign it a number

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-21 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 13:12 -, Jen wrote: I have installed the Kernel package Linux-image-2.6.32-4, but can't automatically boot from it. I thought I could just change the default number in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but the new kernel package is not listed in this file. Do you still have

[PATCH]: lenny - kernel-package 11.015 for use with kernel_2.6.33

2010-03-05 Thread Mart Frauenlob
As this one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561569 does not really work on debian lenny (although suggested on some websites) and i had to work myself through to get it working, here's a patch for the kernel-package 11.015, that's currently in debian lenny, for the use

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-09-01 Thread mertress
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 04:50:45 Arthur Barlow wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM Subject: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels To: debian-u...@debian.org I'm been using Debian for over

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-09-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:24:51 -0400 From: Celejar cele...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels Message-Id: 20090831212451.bc3e3572.cele...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon

Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Arthur Barlow
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM Subject: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels To: debian-u...@debian.org I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my practice to build new kernel

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:50:45 -0700 Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my practice to build new kernel with the kernel-package software that is part of Debian's toolkit. Im noticed over the last few months that all

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In b9384ad40908311750l59cdeb42t783461317bd51...@mail.gmail.com, Arthur Barlow wrote: No filesystem could mount root, tried: Kenel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) My grub menu.lst looks like this: titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30 root

Comment patcher le noyau avec le nouveau kernel-package (SID)

2009-07-05 Thread giggz
Bonjour, depuis quelques mois en SID, le paquet kernel-package ne propose plus l'option (fort utile) --added-patches. Bon j'ai lu le changelog et les docs. Apparemment d'après ce que j'ai compris on doit patcher le noyau à la main avant de compiler avec make-kpkg. Je trouve ça assez dommage

Re: kernel rebuilds with kernel-package?

2009-06-26 Thread Mikko Rapeli
I installed kernel-package 12.014 on a lenny host and indeed rebuilding without clean in between works. Though a lot of file copying seems to happen in every build, but that's not too much. Thanks Manoj! -Mikko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

kernel rebuilds with kernel-package?

2009-06-24 Thread Mikko Rapeli
Hello debian-users I have been pondering this for years and haven't found an answer: How does one re-compile a custom kernel after fixing a bug or adding patch with kernel-package _without_ rebuilding the whole kernel? I want to test new kernels every now and then and usually the first couple

Re: kernel rebuilds with kernel-package?

2009-06-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jun 24 2009, Mikko Rapeli wrote: Hello debian-users I have been pondering this for years and haven't found an answer: How does one re-compile a custom kernel after fixing a bug or adding patch with kernel-package _without_ rebuilding the whole kernel? I want to test new kernels

kernel-package or something else?

2009-05-20 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all, yesterday I posted about problems with initrams and custom kernels... I thought I made something wrong during kernel 2.6.29 config but today I guess that something went wrong with kernel-package setup on my system.discovered I currently unable to install any other kernel, not only

failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread gianni
I dont understand the problem, when the new kernel was issued, I did run apt-get update apt-get upgrade... and I get this error Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-15lenny2_i386.deb (--unpack):

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
gianni wrote: I dont understand the problem, when the new kernel was issued, I did run apt-get update apt-get upgrade... and I get this error Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 ... dpkg: error processing

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:51 PM, gianni giovanni.favor...@gmail.com wrote: I dont understand the problem, when the new kernel was issued, I did run apt-get update apt-get upgrade... and I get this error Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 ... dpkg: error processing

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
[Replying to debian-user, including OP's reply to me, which was presumably intended for debian-user.] On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, gianni giovanni.favor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Patrick this is the result from df -h Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 07:04:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [Replying to debian-user, including OP's reply to me, which was presumably intended for debian-user.] On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, gianni giovanni.favor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Patrick this is the result from df -h

Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-02 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 01 May 2009 17:52:54 Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, May 01 2009, Randy Patterson wrote: My intention at this point is to make a detailed list of the components on a particular system so I can remove everything that is not needed. These would be older systems that will never be

Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-01 Thread Randy Patterson
-8--- cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/yaird \ /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/yaird \ /etc/kernel/postrm.d/ --8---cut here---end---8--- Or, alternately

Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Randy Patterson wrote: My intention at this point is to make a detailed list of the components on a particular system so I can remove everything that is not needed. These would be older systems that will never be upgraded or need new hardware so the kernel don't need a lot of options

Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-01 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 01 May 2009 09:34:58 Dave Witbrodt wrote: Faster? I promise that you would not notice the speedup. Conceivably your kernel will boot slightly faster without having to carry out the hardware detection for the 99% of modules that have no relevance for your particular system, but you

Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Randy Patterson wrote: So on a dedicated system that is used for nothing but running a processor intensive application 24/7, do you think there would be any real increase in performance from a custom kernel? My gut reaction is no, but I do not claim to have data to back that up. If there is

Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, May 01 2009, Randy Patterson wrote: My intention at this point is to make a detailed list of the components on a particular system so I can remove everything that is not needed. These would be older systems that will never be upgraded or need new hardware so the kernel don't need a

kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Randy Patterson
I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At this point I'm just researching the various options or ways in going about this and in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way a couple years ago when I first started using Linux that before diving

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread thveillon.debian
Randy Patterson wrote : I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At this point I'm just researching the various options or ways in going about this and in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way a couple years ago when I first started

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:24:43AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At this point I'm just researching the various options or ways in going about this and in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Randy Patterson
this and in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way a couple years ago when I first started using Linux that before diving into documentation I first need to try to determine it's age. So after installing kernel-package the first thing I did was go to the bottom of the man page and looked

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Patterson
* Randy Patterson t...@patterson-pcc.com [2009-04-30 10:28:00 -0500]: I guess I assumed that kernel-package was to build the kernel from the source used by the current Debian distro installed. So if that's not the case and I decided to use the latest stable from kernel.org

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread thveillon.debian
this and in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way a couple years ago when I first started using Linux that before diving into documentation I first need to try to determine it's age. So after installing kernel-package the first thing I did was go to the bottom of the man

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 30 April 2009 11:09:49 Dave Patterson wrote: * Randy Patterson t...@patterson-pcc.com [2009-04-30 10:28:00 -0500]: I guess I assumed that kernel-package was to build the kernel from the source used by the current Debian distro installed. So if that's not the case and I decided

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Patterson
* Randy Patterson t...@patterson-pcc.com [2009-04-30 11:29:33 -0500]: Dave, with a last name like yours I must assume that this is excellent advice! :-) Thanks for everyone's input. I will now travel down the kernel-package road. The tutorial's old, but it stands the test of time

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
to choose what happens when the kernel image is installed, by dropping scripts into /etc/kernel -- by default, no action is taken For example, to create an initramfs, I did: --8---cut here---start-8--- cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel

missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread Antonio Diaz
Hi, When I compile the kernel the file initrd is not created in spite of I'm specifying the --initrd option in the command line. Exactly, the command that I'm using to compile the kernel is: make-kpkg --initrd --revision=1:xps.10 kernel_image May be there is a problem with the

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
/delete the initramfs files. You can use yaird, or initramfs-tools. For the latter, there are example scripts that you could use as a starting point: /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/initramfs manoj -- And then there was the lawyer that stepped in cow manure

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread emikaadeo
in /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/ to create/delete the initramfs files. You can use yaird, or initramfs-tools. For the latter, there are example scripts that you could use as a starting point: /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/initramfs manoj I upgraded

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
. ` So, drop in scripts in /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/ to create/delete the initramfs files. You can use yaird, or initramfs-tools. For the latter, there are example scripts that you could use as a starting point: /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread emikaadeo
-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs \ /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs \ /etc/kernel/postrm.d/ --8---cut here---end---8--- To run grub, I have in /etc/kernel-img.conf

New version of kernel-package now in unstable

2009-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This brings to an end an enhancement for kernel-package that have been in development for over an year. These changes make kernel-package more nimble (you can just update the sources, hack on a file, and run make-kpkg and it should just work to incorporate your changes, no need

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-04-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, A few hours ago, a new version of kernel-package was uploaded to Experimental. This is a major change, the new kernel-package is far more nimble, more flexible, and supports people who make a minor change to a kernel, or who update the kernel sources (via git or otherwise

Re: Rejuvenated kernel-package uploaded to unstable, please test

2008-10-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Manoj and other Kernel-Maintainers, Thank you for doing this hard job... I am ongoing to test the new kernel-package. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Rejuvenated kernel-package uploaded to unstable, please test

2008-10-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi folks, A new version of kernel-package has made its way to unstable. This is a extensive change, and addresses most of the problems that have been plaguing kernel-package, partially thanks to patches provided by other folk. The new version works with the merged x86 code

Re: Rejuvenated kernel-package uploaded to unstable, please test

2008-10-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Be sure to get kernel-package_11.005_all.deb. The 11.005 fixes a critical regression, born of a copypaste error from late night hacking. Sorry for the inconvenience. manoj -- Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time. a coffee cup Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL

Re: Rebuilding the official Debian 2.6.23 kernel package

2007-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In 2.6.23 kernels this site told you how to rebuild the Debian kernel package: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official In 2.6.23 I can no longer do it. It fails this: fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen setup-i386-none-686

Re: Rebuilding the official Debian 2.6.23 kernel package

2007-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In 2.6.23 kernels this site told you how to rebuild the Debian kernel package: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official In 2.6.23 I can no longer do it. It fails this: fakeroot make -f debian

Rebuilding the official Debian 2.6.23 kernel package

2007-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In 2.6.23 kernels this site told you how to rebuild the Debian kernel package: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official In 2.6.23 I can no longer do it. It fails this: fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen setup-i386-none-686 That flavor no longer

Re: Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21 [RESOLVED]

2007-07-09 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You can either rebuild the kernel and turn that off (Note: but in | that case I had hard hangs in qemu!) *or* use the descriptions | in that page to rebuild the kbuild .deb and install nvidia so it does | not mind paravirt. Just to close out the

nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all worked fine. A few days later, I upgraded to kernel package 2.6.18.2-686 (from lenny

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
upgraded to kernel package 2.6.18.2-686 (from lenny) to resolve a problem with the on-board audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) The kernel upgrade did indeed resolve the problem with the audio controller, but it meant a re

Re: nvidia-kernel package:

2007-07-07 Thread pinniped
Do you use paravirtualization? If not, recompile a kernel with no virtualization support. The problem here is that the NVidia driver is trying to use a module symbol which has been declared for use with GPL drivers only. If I remember correctly that means EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(somevariable) is

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all worked fine. A few days later, I upgraded to kernel package 2.6.18.2

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
worked fine. A few days later, I upgraded to kernel package 2.6.18.2-686 (from lenny) to resolve a problem with the on-board audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) The kernel upgrade did indeed resolve the problem with the audio

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Extensively discussed here: | http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=90214 | | The problem is that post 2.6.18 Debian kernels have PARAVIRT_CONFIG | and nvidia does not like that. | | You can either rebuild the kernel and turn that off

Debian kernel packaging: changes forthcoming in kernel-package 11.x

2007-05-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
gnashing and many bug reports, since the complexity of the logic is one of the most bug-prone bits of the image postinst, it also makes it harder to come up with alternatives to the algorithms or to tweak the behavior -- since one needs to tweak kernel-package, re-compile the kernel, and install

Re: two version numbers on a kernel package?

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does it mean when there are two version numbers on a package. The -number is the Debian patchlevel: major.minor.patch-debpatch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: two version numbers on a kernel package?

2007-01-11 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:43:31PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does it mean when there are two version numbers on a package. The -number is the Debian patchlevel: major.minor.patch-debpatch So in linux-image-2.6.17-2-486_2.6.17-9_i386.deb is the debpatch

Re: two version numbers on a kernel package?

2007-01-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:43:31PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does it mean when there are two version numbers on a package. The -number is the Debian patchlevel: major.minor.patch-debpatch

Re: two version numbers on a kernel package?

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
the put out a whole new kernel package version -- linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 with a new kernel version, say 2.6.18-3 and so forth. this is all a guess, and the numbers are made up. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

two version numbers on a kernel package?

2007-01-10 Thread hendrik
What does it mean when there are two version numbers on a package. For example, one kernel package in the etch installer RC1 is linux-image-2.6.17-2-486_2.6.17-9_i386.deb Now clearly the 2.6.17-2-486 is part of the package name, making it possible to install more than one kernel package

Re: proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-07-19 Thread Kit Peters
Please excuse the lateness of my reply. I don't think this is going to work for me. A wrinkle that I failed to mention earlier is that I'm compiling a custom kernel for these machines, and the driver needs to be compiled against that kernel. Ideally, I'd like to use make-kpkg to generate the

proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-06-29 Thread Kit Peters
For my job, I have to install 3M's proprietary touchscreen drivers (distributed as an SRPM) for MicroTouch USB touchscreens. I am well aware that these screens are supported natively in the kernel; however, my experience with the in-kernel support (as of 2.6.12.3) for these touchscreens has been

Re: proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-06-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
Kit Peters wrote: This means that I wish to wrap the 3M driver in a .deb. What is the best way to go about this? I'd proceed as normal (that is, build the RPMs like you did on the other machines, debian has the rpm utility), but instead of installing the driver through rpm, use alien to

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-24 Thread Kit Peters
using kernel-package 10.047.It might be a re-occurence of a similar bug. I am using the same version and compiled the debian 2.6.17.rc3 packagesa couple of days ago. Perhaps it could be the vanilla source that iscausing it. (Though I doubt it). Well, I'll try the make-kpkg clean, but I'm

Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
as debianized as possible (by which I mean installing everything via apt, and creating my own debs when necessary) I'm using kernel-package. I have configured the kernel via menuconfig. Kernel sources are at $HOME/src/linux-2.6.17.1/. I execute 'CC= gcc-4.1 make-kpkg --pgpsign [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread James Westby
, but as I'm trying to keep this machine as debianized as possible (by which I mean installing everything via apt, and creating my own debs when necessary) I'm using kernel-package. I have configured the kernel via menuconfig. Kernel sources are at $HOME/src/linux-2.6.17.1/. I execute 'CC

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
to use fakeroot rather that a real root commandfor compiling. Hm. I've never used fakeroot for anything. How would I compile a kernel in fakeroot? You neglected to mention the version of kernel-package you are using. Isithttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359832that you are seeing

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread James Westby
/fakeroot/ in your command. That should be it. You then don't have to enter your password, and there is less chance of something going catastrophically wrong. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359832 No, I'm using kernel-package 10.047. It might be a re-occurence of a similar bug

debian kernel package for ubuntu

2006-05-26 Thread Gregory Soyez
is simply to know if installing a debian kernel package on ubuntu is feasible or if it will lead to problems ? TIA for any help... Gregor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian kernel package for ubuntu

2006-05-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
with dpkg on her ubuntu box. So my question is simply to know if installing a debian kernel package on ubuntu is feasible or if it will lead to problems ? I've done exactly that once or twice without any problems. Of course YMMV. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any

Re: kernel-package: angehängtes y

2006-04-15 Thread Max Moritz Sievers
Am Freitag, 14. April 2006 18:18 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: Was sagt $ head -6 /usr/src/linux/Makefile VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 15 EXTRAVERSION = NAME=Sliding Snow Leopard $ head -3 /usr/src/linux/debian/changelog linux-source-2.6.15.20060414y (2.6.15.20060414y-10.00.Custom)

kernel-package: angehängtes y

2006-04-14 Thread Max Moritz Sievers
| \ awk '$1 ~ /[hi]i/ { printf(%s-%s\n, $2, $3) }' debian/buildinfo echo applied kernel patches: debian/buildinfo echo done debian/stamp-build-kernel == making target install/linux-image-2.6.15.20060414 [new prereqs: ]== This is kernel package version 10.040. echo The UTS Release version

Re: kernel-package: angeh ängtes y

2006-04-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 the mental interface of Max Moritz Sievers told: Hi, ich versuche gerade auf Sarge mit einigen Paketen aus testing einen Kernel zu kompilieren. Die Architektur ist AMD K8 aber die 32-Bit-Version. [...] Weiß jemand von Euch, was ich falsch mache? Was sagt $ head -6

Problems with new testing kernel package

2006-03-06 Thread Angelo Bertolli
After installing kernel 2.6.15 on my laptop, my laptop suddenly won't boot from that kernel. It doesn't even get to init. It seems to not be able to find the gzip module on startup. I wrote down the errors since all I get is BusyBox when I boot: ... some hardware detection stuff here ...

Re: problème de compilation avec kernel-package

2006-03-02 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 02.03.2006 18:13:49, mahashakti89 a écrit : Bonsoir ! Comme le dit le sujet, je rencontre un petit problème lorsque je veux compiler un nouveau noyau avec kernel-package, en effet au beau milieu de la compilation la machine se fige et je suis obligé de passer par un reset Au départ

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