hi keefe.. Received at 2002-12-08 / 04:38 by Keefe Roedersheimer: > > I am a newbie to Linux and Debian and I am trying to do a relatively > simple task. I am running woody with the bf24 option to get the 2.4.18 > kernel. I need to update the kernel to 2.5.50 so that I can use some ACPI > features (particularly I need to access this script > http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/speedstep.shtml) but everytime I compile the > new kernel it fails. i think that you do not have to install 2.5.x for that. the aforementioned site says it needs >2.4.18 + ACPI-backport OR 2.5.x. i suppose you grab the latest kernel 2.4.20 (unless you use ext3 with the option data=journal, see http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=515) and the ACPI-backport from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36832 hth, sebastian -- ::: sebastian henschel ::: kodeaffe ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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