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On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:54:36 -0400 |
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John P. Burkett wrote: |
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> David Relson wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:55:10 -0400 |
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> > Drake Donahue wrote: |
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> > |
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> >> <snip> |
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> >> |
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> >> I'm guessing you did an "emerge --depclean" sometime after |
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> >> compiling the 2.6.22-r2 kernel and after emerging a new |
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> >> gentoo-sources that erased your make files, This is something |
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> >> depclean loves to do while leaving 99% of the older kernel source |
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> >> files intact. I think depclean leaves your .config file in place. |
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> >> Been a few weeks since I burned myself last with this one. |
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> >> If you were following directions back in 2007 you should have a |
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> >> stored 2.6.22-r2 config in the /boot directory. |
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> >> |
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> >> Try "emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2 to re-emerge the |
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> >> old package and regain the make files. What the osmp is about |
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> >> beats me. |
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> >> |
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> >> or |
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> >> |
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> >> Emerge a new gentoo-sources, eselect it, configure, compile, |
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> >> install a new (current) kernel. |
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> > |
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> > My understanding is that ati-drivers expects /usr/src/linux to |
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> > contain the source of the currently running kernel. |
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> > |
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> > I'm running a 2.6.28 kernel. I have downloaded 2.6.30 and built |
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> > that but have not yet rebooted. "emerge ati-drivers" failed with |
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> > 2.6.30 in /usr/src/linux. Changing directory names allowed |
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> > ati-drivers to build happily. |
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> > |
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> |
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> David, thank you for sharing your experience. On my system, doing |
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> "uname -r" gets the response "2.6.22-gentoo-r2-osmp". In |
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> my /usr/src/linux directory I currently have a .config file starting |
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> with the lines # Automatically generated make config: don't edit |
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> # Linux kernel version: 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 |
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> # Mon Sep 3 21:48:37 2007 |
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> Can you suggest how to change directory names to allow the ati-drivers |
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> to build? |
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> |
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> Best regards, |
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> John |
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John, |
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/usr/src/linux is what I'd want to see. Do you have just a few files |
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(like .config) or the full kernel source? It's my understanding that |
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ati-drivers need the full kernel source. Likely they use (or check) |
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some of the kernel's internal header files to "match up" the driver |
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with the kernel it's running against. |
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If you've got the full kernel source, then all I can suggest is |
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getting source for the newest kernel, building it (using your |
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old .config as the starting point), rebooting, and (finally) emerging |
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ati-drivers. The steps up to and including rebooting should provide a |
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consistent kernel version and source tree and make ati-drivers happy. |
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HTH, |
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David |
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