On Thursday, 27.10.2005 at 12:05 +0200, Thomas Steffen wrote: > On 10/27/05, Dave Ewart <davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > The pre-packaged kernel, kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8, does almost > > what I want, but the nvidia drivers cannot be compiled against it > > because there is a conflict between the framebuffer support in that > > kernel and the nvidia module. After a lot of work trying to build a > > suitable kernel myself, I can't see to be able to get it to work, so > > I've decided to seek out a prebuilt image instead. > > Just boot that kernel into text mode, extract the kernel source, copy > the config file from the installed kernel, do a make oldconfig, and > you should be ready to compile a new kernel. There were a few changes > in 2.6.12, but nothing fatal that I could find. Yes, I've tried that when building a new kernel: see the thread I posted starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/10/msg00769.html The short version is that building a 64-bit kernel on a system with a 64-bit kernel and a 32-bit userspace, with a 64-bit chroot for kernel-building, results in a kernel which doesn't seem to work for me. I spent a lot of time trying this, hence my quest for a pre-packaged variant :-) I'm happy to revisit that route later, if the search for a pre-package proves fruitless! > > Googling and search has been unsuccessful: I have been unable to find > > any other kernel-image-*-amd64-k8 kernels to try: does anyone have any > > unofficial kernel images that I may try? > > Note that kernels are called linux-image-* since 2.6.12! And there is > most definitely a 2.6.12 around: > > http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/linux-image-2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 > > Recompiling is still a good idea. It makes sure that you have the > right compiler installed (the one used to build the kernel). Yes, I agree: I'd prefer to do that, but I've been having difficulties, which is unfortunate. Thanks for the above link ... Dave. -- Dave Ewart davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Cancer Research UK / Oxford University PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7518, W 1.2016
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