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) to

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 6 2007 11:19:55 pm 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

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

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 05:00:06 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: 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

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

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Chris Waters
Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running on the theory that it might help speed up my Pentium II system (debatable, but that's beside the point), I've tried recompiling a selection of packages with pentium optimisation, downloading the debian source and running `./debian/rules binary`.

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running on the theory that it might help speed up my Pentium II system (debatable, but that's beside the point), I've tried recompiling a selection of packages with pentium optimisation,

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread dan
After doing a apt-get upgrade apt downloaded and installed the debian Speaking of it, how would one put a package on hold, apt-get manual doesn't state how to do it. I always have this problem of getting the same version package, as I just compiled and installed via 'apt-get upgrade'

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Please format your emails to 76 characters or less. On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:33:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing a apt-get upgrade apt downloaded and installed the debian Speaking of it, how would one put a package on hold echo 'package_name hold' | dpkg --set-selections

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Brad
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: Actually, it's not really about newer, it's about having a version number that sorts later, so, one possibility is to use a special version number that will always sort later. This is the trick suggested for custom kernels. Thus,

Re: package compilation

1997-02-20 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hiya, Thanks for your note. I guess I was a bit misleading about patching. The patch I used was a buslogic flashpoint patch for my scsi controller. Not a kernel patch. I got the new 2.0.29 complete sources before I tried to compile. Sorry 'bout that... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: package compilation

1997-02-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This was a bug in kernel-package which has now been corrected. manoj Daniel == Daniel J Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It looks like you new kernel was made after all. I would copy Daniel it to the right place /boot/vmlinuz and use it. I think your Daniel problem

Re: package compilation

1997-02-19 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: I've run into a snag making a kernel package for version 2.0.29. I got new sources, patched them, did a make-kpkg clean and then a make-kpkg Why patch the new sources? I thought you only needed to patch if you had 2.0.28 sources and wanted to upgrade

Re: package compilation

1997-02-18 Thread srivasta
Hi, Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it, but this time it snuck up and changed Feb to February in the changelog, causing

Re: package compilation

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it,

Re: package compilation

1997-02-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Could you please mail me the debian/changelog file? Also, could you run dpkg-gencontrol manually and see if it sheds any more light? Also, Could you give the version of kernel-package installed? manoj -- IT'S THE TWO GODDAMNED CULTURES AGAIN !*! Bit-brained nerdery on