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David Fellows wrote: |
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> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:49:15 -0400 |
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> "John P. Burkett" wrote - |
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>> Thank you, David. The 2.6.22 Makefile I copied from another machine (as |
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>> described in my previous note) starts as follows: |
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>> VERSION = 2 |
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>> PATCHLEVEL = 6 |
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>> SUBLEVEL = 22 |
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>> EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r2 |
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>> NAME = Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! |
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>> As reported in my last note, putting that in my linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 |
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>> directory does not suffice to let "emerge ati-drivers" succeed. |
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>> My latest experiment was editing the Makefile, changing the fourth line |
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>> from EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r2 |
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>> to |
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>> EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r2-osmp |
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>> |
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>> After making that change, I again tried |
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>> emerge ati-drivers |
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>> The response was the familiar |
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>> * Found kernel source directory: |
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>> * /usr/src/linux |
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>> * Could not detect kernel version. |
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>> * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a complete set of Linux |
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>> sources. |
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>> * |
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>> * ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 failed. |
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>> I wonder why "emerge ati-drivers" still does not detect the kernel version. |
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> Don't really know. |
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> You have verified that /usr/src/linux is a symlink to linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 |
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> haven't you? |
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Thank you, David. Yes, I've verified that. |
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> If the top level MAkefile is missing, there could be any number of other files |
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> missing. |
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> You might look in /usr/portage/distfiles to see if you still have the |
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> distributioon files |
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> ls linux* and look for 2.6.22 and ls genpat* and likewise. |
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Those steps did not reveal any files or directories with names involving |
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2.6.22. |
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> If you do at least you could recreate the patched source tree manually. |
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> First rename your existing linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 to something else. |
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> After you unpack and apply patches, copy your .config file into the new. |
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> make oldconfig, |
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> make and so on. |
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> Install this kernel into /boot and update grub accordingly. Boot into it. |
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> emerge your ati driver. |
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> I am afreaid I have runn out of advice. |
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Thanks, it was good advice. I understand the problem better now. |
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> Dave F |
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John P. Burkett |
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