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I hope that doesn't make it sound like I dont appreciate the effort the others have done, just saying why I liked yours so much. I think it'd be awsome if you expanded it, especially since I'm about to take the leap and compile a 2.6 kernel on my laptop(last 2.6 compile didn't go real smooth (on my old desktop) so I'm a bit nervous since my system is working like a clock so far). |
I copied my kernel compile guide over to my Wiki pages and will keep updating it there. Thanks to Old_Fogie, I added a chapter on verifying the kernel archive's GPG signature.
I will also add this link to my original post in the thread. Comments are welcome on the "discussion" tab in the Wiki page. Eric |
hiya, well i'm running a make right now following your site and this thread at same time.
I'm going to try and use the same kernel that slack current is runnning. I wanna see if I can get video to work for me in slack10.2 w/the latest ATI drivers. You know I'm going thru your site and still finding some things I didnt know, or catch my eye :D Let's hope it works. |
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Oh Ok thank you.
Hey I got my radeon working in a 2.6.16.19 kernel now :D I told all the fella's in the DRI in slackware thread at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...90#post2275190 Thanks again Eric. I never thought of using the generic config from testing to use for me now here. I had been using a 2.4 upgraded to a 2.6.10 and then tried going up to higher, and I couldnt seem to get it right. Now off to add in real time Anti-Virus protection and play w/my Dazuko. :D Bye. |
I like this thread, it has all of my favorite posters in it :)
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ln -sf /home/username/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority Also, in regards to kernel compiling; I am a pretty lazy person so I made a small bash script called 'makekernel' that backs up my existing kernel to vmlinuz.old/System.map.old then runs all the commands to build the kernel in '/usr/src/linux'. This way lilo always has the option to boot to the last good kernel and I only have to run one command to backup/build my new one. Just wanted to put that out there for any other lazy people that might read this. regards, ...drkstr **edit** oops, I meant vmlinuz, not bzImage |
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this part here the "make clean" i've seen written on the net a few times, that and "make mrproper"
would that be done on a sytem that already has a custom kernel sitting on it? for example tonight, I compiled this new kernel on a new install of slack. so i should think that I dont need to do "make clean" right. But additional kernel compiles I probably should? does that sound right? |
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Basically, you make the user root use the X "magic cookies" for your own account that are stored in your own ~/.Xauthority file, so that as far as X is concerned, there is no difference between user "you" and user root accessing the X display. If you were to create a second user account "you2" and that account were to run X, then again you would not have the possibility for that user "you2" to do "su -" and start X applications as root. My way of doing things is better if you have more than one user account on your computer that you use to run X sessions. The command Code:
xauth merge ~alien/.Xauthority A second reason to avoid making a symlink is that I never like symlinks that point from root's homedirectory to files in other users' homedirectories - it adds a way to hack into root's account if you mess with the file that the symlink points too. NOTE: By the way Old_Fogie, I fixed that typo in the Wiki page. Eric |
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i allways use the same steps to install a new kernel, exept that
i keep the sources in my home directory. ( i just have a dir. ~/kernels/ ) that has some advantages like: -no need to be root to place and extract the sources. (extracting tar archives as root is "dangerous" ) -root doesn't need the X-screen as you do the config step as normal user. -if you want to do a fresh ( clean )install for some reason, you don't have to backup the tarball of the kernel you use ( if you have a separate /home partition ) this is also the advised method to install a kernel. see the README-file in the kernel-sources. is there any special reason to use /usr/src instead ? egag |
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