My Linux works flawlessly... how frustrating!

joe_2000 · 07-14-2013, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

I also wrote a kernel howto on there. It has details on some of the options, and it is geared towards more advanced users:
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sla...git_repository

Many thanks! Can't wait to get started, but today my parents in law are coming over, so I don't think I'll be allowed to do anything that involves sitting in front of a keyboard and being unaddressable :-)
In that movie about social networks they called that state of mind "being in the tunnel". I think that describes it well...

joe_2000 · 07-15-2013, 02:57 AM

So now I am sitting at work with small eyes because I had to compile kernels till late in the night yesterday. So far I failed miserably... which is great! Finally something to fiddle with again.

At least after a couple of 3.10 attempts that resulted in kernel panics during boot I managed to get the current kernel running again.
This is going to keep me busy again for a while... :-)

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-15-2013, 03:47 AM

For Slackware 14.0 I recommend the 3.4.x kernels.

joe_2000 · 07-15-2013, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

For Slackware 14.0 I recommend the 3.4.x kernels.

Is there any special reason why? I think on aptosid e.g. my keyboard backlight starting working without further drivers as of 3.8 ish... So I thought I'd just take the newest one.
Anyway I am now thinking I should maybe start off with 3.2 generic and then move on version by version with make oldconfig... until it breaks. That way I would have fewer new options that I could set wrong...

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-15-2013, 05:28 AM

If you need a later version than use a later version. I recommended it because it is stable for me.

joe_2000 · 07-15-2013, 09:54 AM

Ok, I see. Thanks again. I will work my way through a couple more panics and certainly be posting questions at some point :-)

cynwulf · 07-15-2013, 11:23 AM

Make sure you build an initrd with your main file system driver (whichever fs /boot is using) or build it into the kernel. That should take care of the panics.

joe_2000 · 07-15-2013, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cynwulf

Make sure you build an initrd with your main file system driver (whichever fs /boot is using) or build it into the kernel. That should take care of the panics.

Hi Cynwulf, thanks for the hint, but I had that already covered. I actually managed to rebuild the 3.2 kernel with the config file provided from the install by including ext4 support as opposed to having it as a module (as originally configured).
No the panics I am getting now are different, but don't worry, I don't feel like posting them just yet... At the moment I am just enjoying to get started with this stuff, and there is no urgency at all.
The Slackware install is just to play with at the moment, I kept my main system intact.

When I feel I have done my "homework" and run out of ideas (and that point is going to come for sure) I will come back to ask for help at LQ :-)

joe_2000 · 07-15-2013, 04:21 PM

How sweet is that?!

Code:

root@asus-n56v:~$ uname -r
3.9.9.edr.20130715.1

Ok. I admit. I cheated a bit and took the generic config from the "current" directory.

:-)

replica9000 · 07-16-2013, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by joe_2000

I can see that my post was written in a misleading way. So on my main work machine I am currently running Aptosid, which is based on Sid. But then maybe that doesn't count, I have to admit that I am pretty impressed about how stable it is. Now is that because sid is not so unstable after all, or is it just the aptosid guys doing a great job...?

Either way on a machine that is visible to the www and at the same time has the backup of all my private data (the server I was talking about) I prefer to run stable :-)

And then also I have to say: As much as I enjoy deepdiving into the inner workings of Linux every now and then, I still also want to be able to depend on my install. E.g. I was running Arch for a while, and really liked it because it encouraged me to learn more Linux, but at some point I switched because I don't want my distro to decide for me when I have to spend time on my config files.

Unstable is only really unstable for the people who like to do blind dist-upgrades. I too find that everything is working great. So in that time I play with something different in a VM, such as Gentoo. My second attempt at Gentoo, and things are going good. So then I was thinking why not recompile parts of my Debian install with different cflags to make it faster/smoother? Actually made more a difference than I thought.