jerry wrote: >OK, using dist Mandrake 8.2 kernel-source-2.4.18-6mdk.i586 (from the rpm on dist cd) >AND Athlon thunderbird cpu, ASUS VIA/PROMISE motherboard (2 built-in usb, serial, >agp, pci cards, p/s2 mouse, no ISA slots) agp voodoo3 videocard, dlink usb card >(bought seperate.. going to remove since it's worth about as much as a good stomach >pump) Avance Logic ALS4000 soundcard (needs alsa driver) CNET Ethernet card (driver >is either tulip or dmfe. disk with card has dmfe so i'm not sure if it's using tulip >for eth0 or usb but it's used for something...) canon bjc parallell printer (but not >used often so usually not installed) > >steps taken: > >1)take current kernel tree (/usr/srs/linux) rename it so it doesn't get overwritten. >(changed to /usr/src/lin) >2)urpmi the kernel-source. >3)coompile: first: make xconfig. > using docs from all my hardware and howtos on linux (kernel, sound, > HOWTO, etc) enable support / modules keeping undeeded drivers > out. >4)make dep. >5) make clean >6) make bzImage >7)make modules >8)make modules install. >9)copy bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/... to /boot (haven't used make bzlilo yet.. >does it work? work better?) >10) lilo conf. > >HISTORY: I've gotten the kernel sucessfully compiled (albeit incorrectly) once but >messed up the lilo and hosed a good part of my HD.. reinstalled. Took a few weeks >off to learn lilo specific info. (the first thing you do with your new penguin is >think you can just walk right in and rebuild the kernel? oh. ok. lol) > >hope that helps. > >On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:02:26 -0400 >ai4a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>jerry wrote: >> >>>for compatibility issues / changing hardware / removable usb devices etc... when >recompiling the kernel, is it better to have the versions on modules symbols set or >not? I've yet to successfully recompile one >>> >>Jerry; >>What release of Mandrake are you running? Also, please list the exact >>steps you are using to compile the kernel. Perhaps you are not doing all >>of the steps! >>Charles >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Someone is sure to point out that
make mrproper is advisable before any version of make config. To get that ALS4000 to work with the current ALSA drivers, you are going to need some options lines in /etc/modules.conf It is a very very poor support that ALSA offers for that card at the moment (8.1 played it out of the box). Civileme
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