T Murray wrote:
Hey guys,
Currently studying LPI102 at grandville - unfortunately the teacher
leans heavily towards Fedora and almost ignores debian systems which
makes things a little difficult.
This week we had to recompile an upgrade kernel, i used the below
method and did a 'make oldconfig' but my xorg server fails to start -
how can this be if i am using the old config file? and what can i do
to resolve this issue?
-- COMPILE METHOD---
1. obtained kernel in bzip2 format, untar, unzip and verify signature
2. clean out old config files with
# make mrproper
3.copy existing kernel config file to the new source directory:
# cp /boot/config-$(uname -r).config
4. Configure the kernel
# make oldconfig
Do this step here,
4.1 make menuconfig (This will start an interactive menuconfig
for you to check that your video driver module is enabled. Enable it
if it is not. If you are running on X then do make xconfig.)
Kernel .config in your old kernel was not picked-up correctly
by your latest kernel that you are re-compiling. This is NOT unusual.
5. compile kernel
# make-kpkg clean
#make-kpkg modules_clean
# make-kpkg --append_to_version=<.value> --initrd kernel_image
(go for a walk...make a coffee and so on!.....)
6. Install Kernel
# cd .. (check for the kernel in .deb format)
7. Reboot - all appears fine and then X wont start and lo complains
about radeon video controller.
Thanks guys once again for taking the time to read my rantings!
Trent
(a.k.a Diazepam)
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