HOWTO: Kernel Compilation for Newbies

Quoted material in RED color.

From page 1 of this HOWTO I read:

Scroll down the text until you find this section (this is my configuration):

Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 330M/340M/350M (RS200 IGP)"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
Substitute the word in red with “vesa”, make it look like this:
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 330M/340M/350M (RS200 IGP)"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"

my xorg.conf (LUCID LYNX) reads:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

every word in this xorg.conf is NOT in color. Do I have to change the line:

Driver "nvidia" to "vesa" like yours?

I know it would be asking a week's work, but could you write an updated HOWTO on this subject?

main thing is that after installing new kernel (vanilla kernel)* your proprietary drivers will unable to start.. so you just prevent yourself from unstarted X. If you`re useing 10.04 then seems right option to change `nvidia` in your xorg.conf to `nouveau` or to `vesa`.

As for me, my nvidia-current driver works after rebuilding current kernel version.

if i were to compile the kernel and apply a patch to it, how should i do it?
this is the *.txt file of the patch that i've to apply to Linux 2.6.35-rc6
i've gotten to the no.6 step as in the guide:

Quote:

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6)After the (long) process type this in the command line (Terminal or Konsole)

Code:
cd /usr/src ls
You'll see a list of the names of the files in the folder as well as the names of your new kernel image and kernel headers; they should look (approximately)like the following:

kernel-image-2.6.10-custom_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
kernel-headers-2.6.10-custom_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

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could you please guide me?
thanks in advance.

Hey,
the whole process went fine till

kernel-image-2.6.10-custom_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
kernel-headers-2.6.10-custom_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

these files were not build in the /usr/src folder as you suggested they would.

Help me,....what should I do next?

This is works but... dont create initrd and i have kernel panic ;)
I must manually create initrd by command

Code:

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sudo update-initramfs -c -k 3.3.1

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and after this operation i run

Code:

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sudo update-grub

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and now new kernel work ok.

can someone please explain what kernel compilation is? I am interested in looking at the source of ubuntu (kernel) but now sure what the comopilation part is.

check out my thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2122292