Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 01:16 am, Dale Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:27:53PM +0000, Pollywog elucidated:
> > I use the Debian source package to compile kernels, since my system is
> > using initrd I need to use Debian kernels.
>
> Well, that's not exactly true.. make-kpkg will happily create an initrd
> for you. apt-get install kernel-package if you haven't already,
> it's a must when building a kernel on a debian system.
>
> > I will try to find the driver and disable it before I compile
> > kernel-source-2.6.10. I have only used kernel.org kernels in Debian
> > when I did not have a system that was using initrd.
>
> I think the one you'll find you're having problems with is likely:
>
> DRM_GAMMA
I could not find it and I even went through every question in 'make config'
since I could not find it using 'make menuconfig'. I thought I could edit
the .config file directly but I have been told that one should not do that.
8)
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