Master Kernel Thread

[exploder]

The tutorial was very helpful! I was able to compile and install a working kernel and the PC booted up with no errors at all. I have one problem, when I go into "Computer" I have CD-ROM1 and my combo drive showing... I only have the combo drive. What did I do wrong? I have never compiled my own kernel before and answered the questions in the script to the best of my ability.but could I have missed something? I have an HP Pavillion a1723w, Intel everything. Could someone shed some light on this problem? I really would like to give this another go.

Thanks!

[edmondt]

I have a question: I have already compiled my kernel and installed the deb file, if I want to change something in "make xconfig" do I need to recompile it again to take effect?

[reacocard]

I have a question: I have already compiled my kernel and installed the deb file, if I want to change something in "make xconfig" do I need to recompile it again to take effect?

Yes.

[master_kernel]

I have a question: I have already compiled my kernel and installed the deb file, if I want to change something in "make xconfig" do I need to recompile it again to take effect?

Sadly, yes.

[master_kernel]

The tutorial was very helpful! I was able to compile and install a working kernel and the PC booted up with no errors at all. I have one problem, when I go into "Computer" I have CD-ROM1 and my combo drive showing... I only have the combo drive. What did I do wrong? I have never compiled my own kernel before and answered the questions in the script to the best of my ability.but could I have missed something? I have an HP Pavillion a1723w, Intel everything. Could someone shed some light on this problem? I really would like to give this another go.

Thanks!

I'm not sure I understand the problem. Could you explain the problem again?

[mhenriday]

I'd love to try this, not least for the educational value of going through the process, but hesitate, as I am running a x86_64 system (AMD 64 X2 5000+), and know from experience that things designed for 32-bit computing don't always work so well on a 64-bit system. Can the download and installation steps provided on the first page of this thread be used «as is», or do they require modification ? Master_kernel writes that «64-bit users should enable 64-bit options in the kernel» ; at what stage during the process do they appear, and just which alternatives should be chosen ?...

Henri

[stepan2]

I followed a basically exact tut as this one and i did fine , but when i boot the kernel , it doesnt recognize my usb slots. Myabe it is because i do acpi=off but i have to do that . This also happens on other Os's except ubuntu's. What patches or things did ubuntu devs add to the kernel to make it detect such things or make everyhting work without acpi?

[dannyboy79]

I followed a basically exact tut as this one and i did fine , but when i boot the kernel , it doesnt recognize my usb slots. Myabe it is because i do acpi=off but i have to do that . This also happens on other Os's except ubuntu's. What patches or things did ubuntu devs add to the kernel to make it detect such things or make everyhting work without acpi?

are you sure that the kernel isn't seeing your ports? it's possible that HAL isn't starting. when you do this command, what do you get back?

dmesg | grep usb

I get this:
[ 3.267131] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 3.267152] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 3.267174] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 4.116896] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4.224577] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4.332402] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4.440296] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4.548327] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[stepan2]

I managed to solve it ! the reason was because i did acpi=off . i searche darround and found out that i had to do pci=nommconfig

[tcoffeep]

Is this kernel upgrade even worth doing?

What's the difference between the current version, and this one?