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From: Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:56:36
Message-Id: e5a3e9ac0603271851s4c65186eve383772c979e2a53@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel by Teresa and Dale
1 On 3/27/06, Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Devon Miller wrote:
3 >
4 > > Just to throw my 2 cents in...
5 > >
6 > > I always set
7 > >
8 > > CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
9 > > CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
10 > >
11 > > unless I'm building for a memory constrained system. This stores the
12 > > config file in the kernel image and makes it available as
13 > > /proc/config.gz. That way, when I get it working, I know what I did.
14 > >
15 > > I'm currently running 2.6.15-r8 of suspend2_sources, so if you're
16 > > using a different kernel YMMV.
17
18 Sorry, what does YMMV mean?
19
20 > > Also, you can tell when the running kernel was built looking in
21 > > /proc/version for the date stamp.
22
23 Ah... I'll do that right away!
24
25 > > dcm
26
27 Once more, what does that mean? Oh... Devon C. Miller... dcm... hah, I geddit.
28
29 > I use the config.gz too. You can actually boot up and untar that thing
30 > and copy it over to a kernel directory and use it. That's good if you
31 > royally screw up your config and need to step back a bit, or maybe a
32 > lot. ;-)
33 >
34 > I'm not guru by any means, I just read a lot and sometimes my light bulb
35 > will go off and it makes sense. If the bulb doesn't go off, stick a
36 > fork in me, I'm done.
37
38 about the same here. Some thing I can help with, most things I can't.
39
40 > P.S. Supper time. Meds make me hungry. < stuffs mouth >
41
42 So that's where all my cookies went... oh wait... I ate 'em : )
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Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel Bo Andresen <bo.andresen@×××××.com>