RE: nvidia and 2.5.70 kernel

[Pavel Rozenboim <pavelr coresma com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher A. Williams [mailto:chrisw privatei com]
> Sent: Mon, June 02, 2003 2:37 PM
> To: Shrike-List
> Subject: RE: nvidia and 2.5.70 kernel
> 
> 
> Gave this a try (in the proper order) and it still fails in the same
> spot(s). It's starting in the riscom8 module. Seems like a 
> lot of these
> just don't compile yet.

You can report it to kernel bugzilla (not bugzilla.redhat.com), to make sure
someone will fix it.

> 
> I'll just have to go through the tedious ones until I get 
> them all to go
> I suppose. Just was hoping someone had made it through all of these.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 10:44, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Christopher A. Williams [mailto:chrisw privatei com]
> > > Sent: Sun, June 01, 2003 5:35 PM
> > > To: Shrike-List
> > > Subject: Re: nvidia and 2.5.70 kernel
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ...And before we even get that far, has anyone been able 
> to produce a
> > > reasonable kernel config file for Red Hat 9 under 2.5.70? 
> I'm still
> > > struggling with this compiling. What I did that doesn't work:
> > > 
> > > 1) Unpack 2.5.70
> > > 2) cd /usr/src/linux-2.5.70
> > > 3) cp/usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.20-i686.config 
> ./.config
> > 
> > I don't think 2.4 config files will work with 2.5 kernels. 
> Just use 'make
> > menuconfig' or 'make xconfig' and select what you want.
> > 
> > > 4) make oldconfig (and accept all of the defaults)
> > > 5) make
> > > 
> > > ...and it fails.
> > 
> > How does it fail? There are still many modules that don't 
> compile, so if you
> > get a compilation errors on some modules, try to deselect them and
> > recompile.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > I've tried correcting modules along the way, but it's 
> just tedious.
> > > 
> > > Anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? This is my first 
> time compiling a
> > > 2.5 series kernel and I'm afraid I am a bit rusty...
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > 
> 
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