[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 29 July 2006 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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!
I don't agree!
Not sure what/where FEDORA does with it's config, so ensure that is correct:
(modern kernels, older (2.4s) are different)
* unpack your source
* copy the correct .config here (might be /proc/config.gz or /boot/config-bla)
* make oldconfig
* make
* make modules_install
The above IS exactly correct for 2.6's
What about if your CURRENT kernel .config uses NVIDIA or ATI driver(s)
for example? (I am using this example only because it was pointed out
previously. There are other examples.)
As pointed out by a previous poster, these drivers are not part of the
stock kernel.
So, when you run 'make oldconfig' without these drivers, these paramaters
are 'UNTICKED' by the process. Newer Linux kernels adds, modifies, and
delete drivers all the time, that's why it is not unusual that your current
.config maybe different from the .config after the process. So
to check visually you must use some utility tool to check, which is
in this case 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig'. It does not matter
whether you use Fedora or Debian, this process applies. Both these
distributions have 'make' utility.
So, what's wrong with that statement ? What is your dis-agreement ?
(BTW for 2.4s
* unpack your source
* make mrproper
* copy the correct .config here (might be /proc/config.gz or /boot/config-bla)
* make oldconfig
* make dep
* make bzImage
* make modules
* make modules_install
)
If you do it all right, then your existing modules will be overwritten with
exactly the same, nvidia, radeon etc will stay behind. You end up exactly
where you were.
How will you have nvidia or radeon drivers if it is not included in the
kernel source
that you are compiling ?
Note that EXTRA_VERSION in the Makefile AND the compiled in version stuff must
match.
You can check uname -a on both old and new
James
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