Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 21 January 2024 07:03:43 GMT Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I did my update and noticed the message about changes to kernel >> packages. Depending on how I read it, it sounds like gentoo-sources is >> still available just that older versions are no longer updated as long. >> If I read it a different way, it sounds like gentoo-sources is about to >> stop existing. That last one doesn't sound right. I can't imagine it >> just going away since there are Gentoo specific stuff in there, openrc I >> think being one option lurking about somewhere. I think there is others >> but been a while since I been poking around in there. gentoo-sources is >> hanging around right? > What was the message? >
This was a good while back. I mostly remember it not giving me a GUI like usual. I do recall emerging the video drivers for that kernel tho. I'm pretty sure it didn't panic, just left me at a console. I'm not 100% sure tho. >> Currently I'm running 5.14.15 gentoo-sources kernel. > This is no longer in the tree. You can update to the next stable release > 5.15.142, or keyword 5.15.147, if you want to remain on the 5.x.x series. > I'm wanting to upgrade to whatever the latest is that nvidia will work with. >> I tried a good while back to >> upgrade to 6.1.55 which sort of boots I think but something doesn't work >> and all I get is a console. It's been a while since I tried it but it >> did fail several times. > What messages were printed on the console by the kernel? Did it segfault? > No clue. It was months ago at least. >> I did the upgrade the usual way. I used make >> oldconfig and went through all the answers which are mostly no since I >> still have old hardware. Is there a better way than oldconfig? > This has served me well for ever and a day. The only time I recall having a > problem was when I missed out some graphics drivers change. The error > message > in the console pointed me to the right direction. > > That has always been my case as well. I've used make oldconfig and it just worked. This time was the exception. >> Is >> there a way to start from scratch and list all the stuff that is on in >> the old kernel and then compare that to the newer kernel so I can just >> enable what is different but I need? I'd rather avoid going through all >> the menus hoping I recognize everything. I forget what I went to the >> kitchen for. Remembering kernel options from years ago is likely to not >> end well. :/ > You can run oldconfig and *carefully* examine the new options proposed, > before > you accept of reject them. > > Use the kernel's /usr/src/linux/scripts/diffconfig tool to compare and > contrast differences between the old config and the new config. This will > show > you what's changed. > > You could start with the latest ~amd64 kernel and work backward, or start > with > the next stable release from the one you're running. If you try to report a > bug the devs will ask you to start with the latest ~amd64 release anyway, so > this could save you time. > > Post boot errors and messages in case someone has a clue as to what may be > missing from your kernel config. I'll keep this in mind. I'm working on gentoo-sources-6.7.1 if nvidia-drivers will work with it. Sometimes they won't emerge, to new or something. It usually spits out a error why and how to work around it, usually a slightly older kernel version or enable some option. ;-) With this info, at least it doesn't look like something has changed and I'm far afield. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
