Thanks luna for the step-by-step guide to mm patching

regards
Terje

Perhaps this may belong in another thread but I'll bury it anyway

Over the last couple days I d/l'd and installed 2.6t6+mm patch. I configured and it compiled just fine. The first time I did it, I stripped a lot out and had issues. The second time I just ran 'make menuconfig' and exited going with whatever the default settings were.

When I boot back into the new 2.6 I can get into gnome just fine, and my programs work.

However, if I run 'lsmod' it's blank, no modules listed at all. In 2.4 I had a list of say.. 15 of so modules from the 9.1 install off the CDs.

Is there a way to compile the new kernel but still keep the configuration off the CDs? Most of my hardware was working fine with 2.4.22 (hadn't attempted to install the new ATI drivers yet - 9800)

Thanks..

-Zigmund .. a n00b but learning fast.

bare hyggelig

i'm in the process of getting 2.6.0t6 to work on my box, but the problem with the "lsmod" may be the version of mod-init-tools (or mod-utils) you have, zig. you might want to check on that (it's in the A series of packages).

here's a silly question related to 2.6 kernel issues:

i took the old config file for my 2.4.22 kernel and attempted to load it as a configuration file for the 2.6.0t6 i compiled. all seemed to go well, but there were outputs (i'm not at home cpu right now) that said something like "line X: uninterpretable option: FBCON <blah>" when i loaded the file under menuconfig. i went into the "grapics" options and turned on various types of frame buffer support, suspecting the screen output would disappear otherwise. then, when i installed the kernel and booted into it, there was no text output to the screen, but i was able to do a blind login as root and reboot into my old working kernel.

i suspect that the frame buffer options are to blame, but what options should i have set to make this work?

I use the 2.6.0-test5 + mm patch and what can I say? I LOVE IT.
Its fast, stable, doesn't skip like the old kernel did
(thanks to the premiable option) And it boots into slackware 9.1 in less than 10 seconds!

This kernel is Teh shiz and I will never use anything else.
It even gives me +20 fps in T2!

2.6. test5-mm4 love it, fast. No problem with the nvidia drivers either, patch here;
http://www.minion.de/
And READ the DOCS.

"Ph33r /\/\Y |_337 |-||_|RD 0F G|\||_|Z!"

Great sig Bet it just flies right off the fingertips too

I'll have to put one on my P1 200mhz box pretty soon, by the sound of things. I'll just have to finish my dreaded English paper first....

Is it worth getting? As in, does it really run faster?

If so - great. I'm always looking for ways to improve the speed of my linux system.

Currently I'm running 2.4.22 and it's worked well. Not a problem to speak of.

The readme actually says for test7 that you should NOT compile it in your /usr/src/linux directory. It says it's best to do it from the user's home directory.

okay guys...i want to ask silly questions..

1. why need to patch mm1 file instead of patch files eg : patch- 2.6.0-test7.gz
2. the "&&" sign is for what

&& allows you to type multiple lines of input before they get processed....

It sorta automates things you could say. Like you can type in 10 lines of commands followed by && on each line, then hit enter and have them all do their thing while you enjoy a cold beer in front of the TV. Then when you come back, its all done.

-Flecko

thanks.....

I'm gonna throw in my own silly question......

I'm currently running 2.6.0.test5 and loving it. So I downloaded 2.6.0.test6, but when I was doing the configuration, I found that support for my ethernet card (Broadcom 440) had been removed.

Is it normal for the test series to have bits come and go like that?

Are you sure that it was removed, and not just placed under a different name?

Hmm. It's back in test7. Maybe I blew the download for test6. Anyway, test7 is running smooooothly.