Brian Oney wrote:
> What I find most interesting would be to compile a slimmer, faster kernel,
> but I have failed (after consulting the debian kernel handbook). One thing
> or the other doesn't work afterwards. Also, I run out of disk space lately
> (15Gb is huge!) My idea was to use the old kernel configuration (with
> 'make olddefconfig'), but there are so many new options and I honestly
> have no clue how to get an overview and make an informed decision.
no need to change something in the oldconfig, except for the chipset you
want to support.
> I would report this as a low priority kernel bug but it's (far) upstream.
> It's also a known problem, which isn't necessarily debian's problem.
>
> I would appreciate any advice. I bought this laptop because it's tough and
> has a good battery. Any laptop that misbehaves on wake-from-suspend is not
> a very useful laptop (Imagine a meeting with a constantly whining laptop).
> Thanks in advance!
download kernel and build tools and I usually
cp /boot/config-4.1<whatever> .config
make oldconfig
make -j4 deb-pkg
sudo dpkg -i ../<packages>
regarding diskspace you can use external drive too
done
