How To Compile the new 2.6.16 kernel from kernel.org

[dcstar]

When using this new kernel, it converted back to the default video driver.

Other than that, I noticed an increase in speed.

I had to recompile my Via and DRM modules with the new headers to restore my Via Unichrome Direct Rendering, after that everything worked fine.

[ignorance]

well if any reads the lines that the kernel shows someone should have figured out that he isn't giving a splash screen because he can't find one.

Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...

here's a link how to get one, duno if it works will try for myself to later:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...ight=bluebuntu

[Rizado]

ck4 is out, but ck3 is still the one on the main page. And in the announce it says it's the patches from 2.6.16.2?
Then what is ck1, 2 and 3? 2.6.16.4 is out...

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...es/2.6/2.6.16/

[dcstar]

I had to recompile my Via and DRM modules with the new headers to restore my Via Unichrome Direct Rendering, after that everything worked fine.

And of course, I found that I could have these items compiled in my new kernel anyway.... so I did it!

Also removed many (many) items from the configuration that were not necessary for my setup, this cut down the compile time as well as the size of the created kernel - well worth the effort if anybody can be bothered (and knows what they are doing.......)

[dcstar]

I just finished compiling the newest 2.6.16 kernel from kernel.org and I am getting much better performance. In what follows, I will show you how to compile and configure the latest kernel. I don't have a splash screen at start up but the kernel works great. It is much faster. This is my first How-To.

1. Download the latest stable kernel and it's performance patch:
The latest kernel
Latest Kernel Patch
.......

I note from the patch README that the cks patches are optimised for Servers, where the ck patches are for Desktops.

Perhaps in future people should choose the desktop version?

[towsonu2003]

Another problem..
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What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
address space size as your running kernel.
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I have checked all kernel directories in /usr/src/linux(version)/include, but nothing

this is vmware? uninstall and reinstall vmware...

[towsonu2003]

Hi!

Is this patch working with the latest version kernel? (2.6.16.2)?
When I tried to apply the patch I got these lines:

sudo bzcat /home/dani/patch-2.6.16-cks3.bz2| patch -p1
patching file include/linux/sched.h
patching file kernel/sched.c
Hunk #6 FAILED at 153.
Hunk #7 succeeded at 203 (offset 1 line).
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4 out of 124 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/sched.c.rej
patching file fs/proc/array.c
patching file include/linux/sysctl.h
patching file kernel/exit.c
patching file kernel/sysctl.c
patching file include/linux/init_task.h
patching file block/Kconfig.iosched
patching file include/linux/ioprio.h
patching file mm/page-writeback.c
patching file arch/ia64/configs/tiger_defconfig
patching file arch/ia64/configs/zx1_defconfig
patching file arch/ppc/configs/common_defconfig
patching file arch/ppc/configs/pmac_defconfig
patching file kernel/Kconfig.hz
patching file Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
patching file include/linux/swap.h
patching file init/Kconfig
patching file mm/Makefile
patching file mm/swap.c
patching file mm/swap_prefetch.c
patching file mm/swap_state.c
patching file mm/vmscan.c
patching file include/linux/mm_inline.h
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patching file include/linux/mmzone.h
patching file mm/page_alloc.c
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patching file mm/Kconfig
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patching file mm/readahead.c
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patching file Makefile
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
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patching file arch/arm/Makefile
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patching file arch/ppc/Makefile
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patching file arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/Makefile
patching file arch/sh/Makefile
patching file arch/um/Makefile
patching file arch/x86_64/Makefile
patching file scripts/Kbuild.include
patching file scripts/Makefile.build
patching file scripts/Makefile.clean
patching file scripts/Makefile.modinst
patching file scripts/Makefile.modpost
patching file scripts/kconfig/Makefile
patching file scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/Makefile
patching file scripts/package/Makefile
patching file arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]

What should I do? Thanks!

patch and compile 2.6.16 instead of 2.6.16.2

[towsonu2003]

This is my problem when I build 2.6.16.2:

I'm newbie and I see number 6031 ... How can I solve them? Thanks.

use 2.6.16 to compile (sorry for me being repetitious).

[towsonu2003]

ck4 is out, but ck3 is still the one on the main page. And in the announce it says it's the patches from 2.6.16.2?
Then what is ck1, 2 and 3? 2.6.16.4 is out...

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...es/2.6/2.6.16/

you use 2.6.16 as base. ck1 gives you patched 2.6.16.1, ck2 gives 2.6.16.2 etc... so for latest kernel, you download 2.6.16, check the x in 2.6.16.x in kernel.org main page (latest), and you download ckx as your patch. that's my understanding of this thing.

[decebal]

I compiled and installed the kernel apparently without problems but it killed my fglrx driver and no matter what I did (reinstall, reconfigure, etc) I couldn't get rid of the mesa thing!
The other problem I had was with my fat partition - it just wouldn't let me mount it at all with the new kernel - it would say "device already mounted or busy" and if I tried to unmount it would say "device not mounted".

On the other hand, I didn't notice any major speed improvement with the new kernel - but I'm on a fast machine and the "old" kernel was already pretty fast.

And by the way, if you want to make the splash image work with the new kernel all you need to do is reinstall usplash in synaptic.

So .... back to 2.6.15 for me.