Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:29:56
Message-Id: AANLkTimizUMCPP-2bd=BNet1nWwasCs=w4tO6yRbMeR-@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions by Andrea Conti
1 On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Andrea Conti <alyf@××××.net> wrote:
2 > Most settings in that submenu depend on specifig things being enabled
3 > elsewhere (e.g. an ACPI driver). If you have actually selected
4 > X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES=Y, and you get an empty submenu, chances are the
5 > rest of your configuration is such that nothing in there can be selected.
6
7 Also, in menuconfig you can type / which will allow you to search. The
8 search results will tell you which other options the items depend on
9 and which menu they are located in, so you can find them and enable as
10 needed.