Kai Timmer wrote:
Hello, i want to enable the acpi support for my dell inspiron 8200. So i have downloaded the acpi patch und patched the kenrel sources. In the patching process i got some messages like "there is allready a patch applied". I have ignored them and went further.
This is a very bad idea: try to use the original kernel source.
When i'm going to compile the kernel now i get the following error message: realpath(/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/drivers/acpi/include) failed, No such file or directory make[6]: *** [fastdep] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/drivers/acpi' make[5]: *** [_sfdep_acpi] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/drivers' make[4]: *** [fastdep] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/drivers' make[3]: *** [_sfdep_drivers] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21' make[2]: *** [dep-files] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21' make[1]: *** [dummy_do_dep] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21' make: *** [stamp-kernel-configure] Error 2 Whats wrong ?
I hope that helps, Jerome