Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-07 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/4 Harry Putnam : > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me.  I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > I tried closely comparing the current working ker

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
> And on a reasonably new version of pciutils... > lcpci -k > lists devices and drivers, less extras to dig through. > > -- > Poison [BLX] > Joshua M. Murphy > That should, of course, be lspci, not lcpci... -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag 03 November 2009 23:29:59 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> The thing is, I cannot find the culprit.  For example, examining the >> PIIX items in the working kernel and inserting here: > > Still the (IMHO) best way is to boot a LiveCD,

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 03 November 2009 23:29:59 schrieb Harry Putnam: > The thing is, I cannot find the culprit. For example, examining the > PIIX items in the working kernel and inserting here: Still the (IMHO) best way is to boot a LiveCD, run "lspci -vv" (two times "v") and write down which hardware i

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > So I'm back in the soup. > [I hope what I try to layou

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES. Also, you need to compile in the filesystem, not as module.

[gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10+ yrs.. Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. So I'm back in the soup. [I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing]

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
091103 Harry Putnam wrote: > building a new kernel has always been a problem for me. > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. I find it doable with a bit of care (smile). > After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4 > I started with `make oldconfig' > Moved from that to `make