Recompiling the kernel did help, cheers.
> >On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Pavel Musil wrote:
> >> Thanks to all of you for your answers. I shall start with
> re-compiling the
> >> kernel. However, I don't know what CONFIG_SYSVIPC is and how
> to compile the
> >> kernel with it. When I installed RedHat 6.1 I chose the easy graphic
> >> installation and I don't remember the installer to inquire
> about any kernel
> >> options. Does anybody happen to know if there is an easy way
> to recompile
> >> the kernel from some X utility or has it to be done manually.
>
> I don't know about RH 6.1, but kernel compilation in general consists of
> several steps, detailed in /usr/src/linux/README (where the linux part of
> the preceding path is a symlink to your kernel version, e.g., 2.2.13). The
> step of creating the .config file that can be done in three ways:
>
> make config -- the old-style, question-and-answer way
> make menuconfig -- a (ncurses-based, looks like) text-
> screen menu. Looks lice in an eterm; this is
> the one I usually use.
> make xconfig -- a GUI-based menu that lets you choose
> among most (I don't think quite all) of the
> configuration options. I little too gimmicky
> for my taste, but some like it. It requires
> tcl to run.
>
> Actually there is a fourth way, if you're feeling brave -- you
> can edit the
> file /usr/src/linux/.config by hand, in vi or emacs or whatever ...
> occasionally, I've been driven to this when a corrections is described too
> obscurely for me to find it by way of any of the *config scripts.
>
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
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