> > I tried e-mailing you directly - but it gets bounced back with errors.
Strange. You seem to be the only one having problems :-) What errors exactly? > How can I contact you directly (another e-mail address?) > You can mail to <arvidjaar at mail dot ru> but I do not look there very often. And you can just mail devfs list, but of course they probably do not want to see Mandrake-specific things. > I applied the patch and tried to compile a new kernel, but got errors > and the compile failed (see snip below) > > The question is - after a fresh install - do I need to do a "make > mrproper" before I begin - or just start with "make deps" > make mrproper cp /boot/config .config edit Makefile and change EXTRAVERSION to e.g. 18mdkcustom make dep make make modules make modules_install make install Should run lilo at the end but running lilo once more won't harm :) I must admit I have not tried build 18mdk as yet. > In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-18mdk/include/linux/mm.h:4, > from zftape-compress.c:35: > /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-18mdk/include/linux/sched.h:6: nondigits in number > and not hexadecimal Sure. Make mrproper (or distclean if you like it more) then as above. -andrej
