I don't have a lot of experience rebuilding the kernels for the PC architecture but because of some development work I'm doing, I need to run the 2.4.27 kernel on a Suse 9.1 installation. I've downloaded the kernel, created the .config file (make menuconfig), did a 'make dep' and then a 'make'. Right off the bat I get the following errors:

usr/src/linux-2.4.27/include/linux/smp.h:29: error: conflicting types for `smp_send_reschedule'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/include/asm/smp.h:42: error: previous declaration of `smp_send_reschedule'

Any help in resolving this issue would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rocket

make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules

and then I copy system.map and the .config manually to /boot
and copy/rename the bzImage to vmlinuz and move it to /boot also

Doesn't work, but I'll answer my own question.

I had to revert to gcc 3.2.2 in order to get a working binary. For some reason when I built with 3.3 I got kernel panic on page swap early in the boot process.

Anyhow, I can run with 2.4.27 but now my mouse won't work. I made sure ALL mouse drivers were enabled in the .config. BTW, I'm using KDE. I even tried to reconfigure the mouse after I got the desktop. I would appreciate any helpful clues.

Thanks,

Rocket