HowTo: Installing and using KernelCheck

[fatmcgav]

tried to build a 23 kernel with:
normal performance patch
reconfigure x-server
build nvidia

and it gives me this during install of the nvidia driver:
/usr/bin/kernelcheck: 348 : 8989 segmentation fault (core dumped). sudo nvidia-xconfig

hmmm it's going on. pressed enter once in console, then the ok button was enabled in the small nvidia window, now it is downloading the kernel src.

I don't think this will be of any success?

No, it builds the kernel and appears to work fine, but when it boots in, the nvidia drivers aren't being used, and get the following error when trying to use restricted drivers manager...

"You need to install:
Linux-restricted-modules-2.6.23.8-greenhydra
for this program to work"

Any ideas people???

Cheers
Gav

[Maulwuff]

seems as there is a bug in hydra: if I don't recheck the options to compile with (ie. compile with recommended patch), building won't start.


hint: don't download the src everytime a build is started. check wether it is present already.

It finally compiled the greenhydra-kernel.
At the end I got stuck with a full /boot -partition and kernelcheck went on as if everything went well.
see attached screenshot. (I don't know how to copy text out of the kernelcheck console)

[Benji86]

I'm having the same porblem than Maulwuff. It'started after updating KernelCheck :S

[elec999]

Same problem here. Linux-restricted-modules needed.
Thanks

[master_kernel]

Right now the nvidia driver option does not work. I will fix this by the mainstream release next week. You get the restricted driver error because it needs the nvidia driver.

Note: the mm- patchset will not be included in the HYDRA release due to time restrictions.

[funpop]

probably you missed my post..

my root partition went down from ~ 1,8 gig to 800 mb free disk space. could you please explain how to free up some space again ? cant imagine that the new kernel needs the 1 gig it took away..

[master_kernel]

probably you missed my post..

my root partition went down from ~ 1,8 gig to 800 mb free disk space. could you please explain how to free up some space again ? cant imagine that the new kernel needs the 1 gig it took away..

Sorry, I did miss your post.

Usually compiling the kernel takes up 3G, so you must be lucky .

Anyway, there isn't much you can delete, except for /usr/src/linux-VERSION (i.e. /usr/src/linux-2.6.24-rc3). That should free up some space.

master_kernel

[master_kernel]

Well, lucky me. This is setback #15. The kamikaze patchset has been discontinued. This may affect the release date of KC significantly.

EDIT: The Zen project has replaced Kamikaze. These patches will be integrated into KernelCheck. The earliest release date for KernelCheck HYDRA will be a week after the stable release of the 2.6.24 kernel.

master_kernel

[master_kernel]

KernelCheck has a new face! The winning logo has been attached.

[master_kernel]

kernelcheck.is awesome

but sound doesn't work, it says cant find GStreamer plugins
EDIT:fixed it, just had to enable the HD sound

Yeah, it took me a while to figure this out.