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Re: Mail, Kernel and X



Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd <auswetbl@mail.austasia.net> writes:
A> I also wish to compile my own kernel (make xconfig) but because i dont know
A> the specs for my vid card, monitor and sound card (soundblaster 16 clone i
A> think) will i run into trouble?

You don't need to use 'make xconfig' to configure your kernel; 'make
menuconfig' works without X, for example, as does the old 'make
config'.  In this case you won't need specs for your video card or
monitor.  If you don't know the information for your sound card, you
can build a kernel without sound support.

You should read the README file at the top of your kernel source tree
before trying to build your own kernel.  It's probably also a good
idea to install the kernel-package package, which builds Debian
packages out of kernels.

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