Kernel Compile Guide for 2.6.0

Dodgy:
For SVGA modes make sure you check this when configuring:

Device Drivers -> Graphics Support -> Support for Framebuffer....
choose Vesa VGA graphics support

Device Drivers -> Graphics Support -> Support for Framebuffer.... -> Console...
check 'Video Mode Selection Support' and 'Framebuffer Console Support'

If these options aren't visible, go to 'Code Maturity level Options' and check 'Prompt for development...'

Recompile, it should work now...

The keymap:
You should be a keymap called "fi-latin-1", in the kernel configuration it is also known as:

File Systems -> Native Language Support -> NLS ISO 8859-1 (Western European...)
Also make sure that the Default NLS Option is set to iso8859-1 (Top of the Native Language Support page).

Hope this helped!
Merry X-mas!
God Jul!

Thank you Kadaver or should I say tack. I'm gonna try that out in a minute or two. Merry x-mas to you all and god jul to Kadaver...

Edit: Using VESA VGA did the trick for me. I had all the rest already. Finally I can also use | which I didnt had before. Sweet. I might even stick with Slack now since I like it quite a bit...

On the nvidia front, it may be useful:

"These are ready-to-go Nvidia installers for kernel 2.6 made by Christian Zander
(http://minion.de/nvidia.html). No need to patch anything. Simply run them as you
would the 2.4 version Nvidia installers."

go here: http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/

I just found the link above, and am about to try it out...

tobyl

I'm having some problems... Everything seemed to work out without a problem until a I booted into the new kernel. When it starts, its kinda of hard to explain, but the top half of my screen is a bunch of penguins although they are all cut in pieces diagonally and strewn across the screen and the 'text' is just a bunch of white gibberish. Looks odd, but it looks like its running through the basic startup stuff. Could it have anything to do with AGPGART? I didn't think that would cause problems until I installed the nVidia drivers (I couldn't find the AGPGART part in the kernel config, I did gconfig, although that shouldn't make a difference). Any ideas?

Ok... I have compiled the 2.6 kernel and so far so good... untill I ran into this gem... the ATI fglrx drivers would not work so I upgraded to the new 3.7 drivers and now I only get a black screen after I type startx... bummer.

Originally posted by slackMeUp Ok... I have compiled the 2.6 kernel and so far so good... untill I ran into this gem... the ATI fglrx drivers would not work so I upgraded to the new 3.7 drivers and now I only get a black screen after I type startx... bummer.

did you edit XF86Config ?
I don't know whast you have to change but it must be in readme.

Did you run fglrxconfig?

Hi, I'm having a big problem running kernel 2.6.0 on my slack 9.1.
I followed DaOne's guide, and did this :
-I edited lilo.conf so I could boot the 2 images, /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/vmlinuz.old.
-in /usr/src :
tar -jxvf linux-2.6.0.tar.bz2
rm -f linux
ln -s linux-2.6.0 linux
-I edited the Makefile in /usr/src/linux and uncommented the line "#export INSTALL_PATH=/boot"
-from /usr/src/linux :
make mrproper
make menuconfig
make
su -c "make modules_install"
make install

So then, I boot the 2.6.0 kernel, after the boot messages I get the message "Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on hda3".
(hda3 is my current linux partition, using reiserFS).
Is there something I should have checked in menuconfig ? or did I update the kernel wrongly ?

Personally I would recommend enabling support for ReiserFS before trying to reboot with the new kernel. It's very easy to forget =).

Originally posted by kadaver Personally I would recommend enabling support for ReiserFS before trying to reboot with the new kernel. It's very easy to forget =).

YES! that happened to me. i didn't realize there was a difference between the checked boxes and the dotted boxes in the make xconfig step.

additionally, i needed to tweak usb settings and network card settings.

Hey DaOne,

Good job on these guides. I would have emailed you to say this but I can't email or PM you per your choice.

Anyway. Just wanted to say nice work.

Thanks,
Whitehat

Thanks kadaver it works, gee I wonder why reiserFS is disabled by default..

Maybe too newbie.. but when i typed make menuconfig i got:
make: *** No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop.

Guess i should make the changes, and then make menuconfig? if so, how do i do that?

i'm also getting the "blank screen" problem with booting. Looks fine up until the post lilo part (where the os loads). I have tried the suggestions in this thread and still cannot get any ouput after selecting slack from LILO :/

Originally posted by Guayacan Maybe too newbie.. but when i typed make menuconfig i got: make: *** No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop. Guess i should make the changes, and then make menuconfig? if so, how do i do that?

Did you do this as root (su) and make sure you were in /usr/src/linux?