RE: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28? Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage? Well given the kernel isn't in unstable, it didn't seem like a problem in need of a fix yet. Now given I was thinking of going to 2.6.27 or 28 to try and fix my webcam and I want my nvidia card to stay working, it may just have become an issue for me so I guess I should go work on the next version and see when Randall wants to do something with it. What's the deal, anyway? The nVidia blob installer tries to make like it can't find the kernel headers, nor the compiled output. I guess we could consider packaging up the 180.x driver in experimental or something. It is a beta driver though and generally those have not been packaged up. Usually we just patch the driver to work with newer kernels when needed. Sorry, I tend to forget that it is a big deal to do that stuff. It's just as well you haven't packaged the beta. NVidia I think already has some later versions. My guess is that they will get around to fixing it once and for all for both the newer kernels. Thanks for the reply; I know you guys are busy and I tend to be a pain in the anatomy. (Sorry I am just now saying thank you, I have been out of pocket for a while. On the upside, I now have a new GigaByte Core i7 machine to try Debian on. I may try a Lenny install on it, assuming I can get a Lenny AMD64 DVD in a timely fashion. Wish me luck...) Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:20:46AM -0700, m...@allums.com wrote: Sorry, I tend to forget that it is a big deal to do that stuff. It's not that bad really. Well except when the kernel interface changes and breaks things and you have to track down patches and such. It's just as well you haven't packaged the beta. NVidia I think already has some later versions. My guess is that they will get around to fixing it once and for all for both the newer kernels. Randall did package 180.22, and I am using it at home with 2.6.27 (which made my webcam work that 2.6.26 didn't work with). SO far no problems. It is in experimental or maybe it was in Randall's build area. I forget. Thanks for the reply; I know you guys are busy and I tend to be a pain in the anatomy. (Sorry I am just now saying thank you, I have been out of pocket for a while. On the upside, I now have a new GigaByte Core i7 machine to try Debian on. I may try a Lenny install on it, assuming I can get a Lenny AMD64 DVD in a timely fashion. Wish me luck...) I always use the business card installer, and have it download whatever packages I ask for over the net. Much more efficient than full DVD images unless you don't have an internet connection at the machine. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Where is the kernel?
Original Message Subject: Re: Where is the kernel? From: Sridhar M.A. m...@mylug.org Date: Tue, January 06, 2009 5:54 am To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28? Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage? Not sure about amd64, but there is a patch available for Nvidia 177.80 which makes it compile under x86 and 2.6.28. FWIW, here is uname from my machine : Linux brahman 2.6.28-mas #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 25 12:15:31 IST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Thanks! I will look into it immediately. MArk Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Robert Isaac wrote: That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those for a desktop. But it would certainly be a good argument to use in a letter to your elected representative, requesting a new law which would oblige hardware manufacturers to disclose driver Source Code. In any case, the temporary (until legislation forced their availability) lack of 3D accelerated video card drivers would be only a minor hardship. A cause worth fighting for is worth suffering for -- or have we forgotten that already? -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28? Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage? Not sure about amd64, but there is a patch available for Nvidia 177.80 which makes it compile under x86 and 2.6.28. FWIW, here is uname from my machine : Linux brahman 2.6.28-mas #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 25 12:15:31 IST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it. -- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:07:28PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those for a desktop. Well true, that it would. I guess we would have to fix that if we did go to 2.6.27. Not as if we didn't have to fix it for 2.6.26 when that came in. The latest nvidia update got rid of the sse support is required problem so it would be nice for some older PCs to go to that one anyhow, although I think any machine without sse is running an old enough card that the 9x.xx driver series is fine, so it hasn't been a huge problem, just slightly annoying. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28? Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage? Well given the kernel isn't in unstable, it didn't seem like a problem in need of a fix yet. Now given I was thinking of going to 2.6.27 or 28 to try and fix my webcam and I want my nvidia card to stay working, it may just have become an issue for me so I guess I should go work on the next version and see when Randall wants to do something with it. What's the deal, anyway? The nVidia blob installer tries to make like it can't find the kernel headers, nor the compiled output. I guess we could consider packaging up the 180.x driver in experimental or something. It is a beta driver though and generally those have not been packaged up. Usually we just patch the driver to work with newer kernels when needed. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:06 AM, A J Stiles de...@earthshod.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Robert Isaac wrote: That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those for a desktop. But it would certainly be a good argument to use in a letter to your elected representative, requesting a new law which would oblige hardware manufacturers to disclose driver Source Code. Yes it would, but it would probably do little good considering the current views of my elected representation towards intellectual property. Both of my Senators and my Representative in the US House of Representatives are staunch supporters of everything that makes life in the digital realm anti-social. From the draconian DMCA to Orphan Works, they support it. In any case, the temporary (until legislation forced their availability) lack of 3D accelerated video card drivers would be only a minor hardship. A cause worth fighting for is worth suffering for -- or have we forgotten that already? Unfortunately, I can't afford to be without a 3D desktop so that is not an option for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, I'm sorry, but that's not the case: Debian is *only* main, non-free is a commodity place we provide for our users, it's not that something broked in non-free would stop the release to happen. That is good to say, but in practice is not really the case, especially with wireless firmware in non-free :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On 01/06/09 17:14, Robert Isaac wrote: [snip] Unfortunately, I can't afford to be without a 3D desktop so that is not an option for me. I'm sure you have a valid reason, but it does seem rather odd that you can't live without what many consider as eye candy. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
2009/1/5 A J Stiles de...@earthshod.co.uk: On Monday 05 Jan 2009, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear maintainers, just some questions What happened to the kernel higher than 2.6.26 ? Is the kernel on hold, due toe the upcoming release of Lenny? Meanwhile the latest stable kernel-version is 2.6.28 (and 2.6.29 is at work). Where is 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 in debian? I only found 2.6.26 as the latest release. Did I miss something? If you really want an up-to-the-minute kernel, what's wrong with using kernel-package to create your own deb packages from kernel.org sources? The main problem, I suppose, is to get the debian kernel patches. Is there a easy way to do a diff between the changes in the kernel.org sources and the debian patched sources? -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- --- Ivan S. P. Marin Laboratório de Hidráulica Computacional Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil +55 (16) 3373 8270 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On 01/05/09 09:27, Lennart Sorensen wrote: [snip] experimental [snip] and 2.6.28 is there now. Yay! Thanks, Kernel Team. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:16:14AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: It's not there, and won't be until after Lenny's release. Unless the maintainers relent and put 2.6.27 into Experimental. Well 2.6.27 was in the kernel experimental area for a while, and 2.6.28 is there now. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
Hans-J. Ullrich: Dear maintainers, This list is for Debian users of AMD64. You cannot expect maintainers to read it. What happened to the kernel higher than 2.6.26 ? Is the kernel on hold, due toe the upcoming release of Lenny? Yes. Meanwhile the latest stable kernel-version is 2.6.28 (and 2.6.29 is at work). http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel J. -- After the millenium I would tell lies only to those who deserved them. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Where is the kernel?
Ivan Marin writes: The main problem, I suppose, is to get the debian kernel patches. Is there a easy way to do a diff between the changes in the kernel.org sources and the debian patched sources? A Debian source package consists essentially of the pristine upstream source plus a diff containing the Debian changes. But why do you need them? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
2009/1/5 John Hasler jhas...@debian.org: Ivan Marin writes: The main problem, I suppose, is to get the debian kernel patches. Is there a easy way to do a diff between the changes in the kernel.org sources and the debian patched sources? A Debian source package consists essentially of the pristine upstream source plus a diff containing the Debian changes. But why do you need them? -- I've been always curious about what are the changes that the Debian kernel team does to the pristine kernel, if any, and the differences between the pristine and the Debian .config. I will look at the linux-source package. Thanks! Ivan John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- --- Ivan S. P. Marin Laboratório de Hidráulica Computacional Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil +55 (16) 3373 8270 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 20:29, Ivan Marin ispma...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/5 John Hasler jhas...@debian.org: Ivan Marin writes: The main problem, I suppose, is to get the debian kernel patches. Is there a easy way to do a diff between the changes in the kernel.org sources and the debian patched sources? A Debian source package consists essentially of the pristine upstream source plus a diff containing the Debian changes. But why do you need them? -- I've been always curious about what are the changes that the Debian kernel team does to the pristine kernel, if any, and the differences between the pristine and the Debian .config. I will look at the linux-source package. You can look at the diff with zless kernel package.diff.gz . The debian/changelog file should contain even some references for the patch applied and why. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear maintainers, just some questions What happened to the kernel higher than 2.6.26 ? Is the kernel on hold, due toe the upcoming release of Lenny? Meanwhile the latest stable kernel-version is 2.6.28 (and 2.6.29 is at work). Where is 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 in debian? I only found 2.6.26 as the latest release. Did I miss something? Cheers Hans It's not there, and won't be until after Lenny's release. Unless the maintainers relent and put 2.6.27 into Experimental. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
Ivan Marin writes: I've been always curious about what are the changes that the Debian kernel team does to the pristine kernel, if any, and the differences between the pristine and the Debian .config. Description: Linux kernel source for version 2.6.25 with Debian patches This package provides source code for the Linux kernel version 2.6.25. This source closely tracks official Linux kernel releases. Debian's modifications to that source consist of security fixes, bug fixes, and features that have already been (or we believe will be) accepted by the upstream maintainers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
2009/1/5 John Hasler jhas...@debian.org: Ivan Marin writes: I've been always curious about what are the changes that the Debian kernel team does to the pristine kernel, if any, and the differences between the pristine and the Debian .config. Description: Linux kernel source for version 2.6.25 with Debian patches This package provides source code for the Linux kernel version 2.6.25. This source closely tracks official Linux kernel releases. Debian's modifications to that source consist of security fixes, bug fixes, and features that have already been (or we believe will be) accepted by the upstream maintainers. Thanks! I was wondering about how to find (and maybe apply myself some of) each of the security fixes, bug fixes, and features to a pristine kernel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:16:14AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: It's not there, and won't be until after Lenny's release. Unless the maintainers relent and put 2.6.27 into Experimental. Well 2.6.27 was in the kernel experimental area for a while, and 2.6.28 is there now. Yes. Most users either aren't aware, forget about the existence of it, or don't want to mess with kernel experimental. And most of the time, they'd be right. The Lenny freeze is causing an exception to the usual rule. I personally think both kernels should be is the main experimental section, or even in Sid. But I am not a Debian Maintainer. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:41:26AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Yes. Most users either aren't aware, forget about the existence of it, or don't want to mess with kernel experimental. And most of the time, they'd be right. The Lenny freeze is causing an exception to the usual rule. I personally think both kernels should be is the main experimental section, or even in Sid. But I am not a Debian Maintainer. Given the number of bug reports the kernel packaging team deals with, I can understand why they might not want to make it too easy to get a hold of experimental kernel builds. Besides the more testing there is of the lenny kernel before release, the better. Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the official Lenny kernel. Or at least be packaged alongside 2.6.26 in the final distribution as an alternative. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:16:14AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: It's not there, and won't be until after Lenny's release. Unless the maintainers relent and put 2.6.27 into Experimental. Well 2.6.27 was in the kernel experimental area for a while, and 2.6.28 is there now. -- Len Sorensen Len, I tried apt-get -d install linux-image -t experimental but it showed only all versions of 2.6.26 How can I download (but NOT install) the latest kernel from experimental? Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
on 01/06/09 06:58, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: apt-get -d install linux-image -t experimental but it showed only all versions of 2.6.26 How can I download (but NOT install) the latest kernel from experimental? According to Debian Wiki[1], you can get latest package from other repository. [1]:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel -- /* * Masami Ichikawa * mailto: hangar...@mub.biglobe.ne.jp * : masami...@gmail.com */ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the official Lenny kernel. Or at least be packaged alongside 2.6.26 in the final distribution as an alternative. Well I certainly wouldn't object to 2.6.27 being the Lenny kernel, but I have no say in that matter. I have had some odd behaviour with 2.6.26 on a few machines that I can't reproduce easily and hence haven't been able to file bug reports about. 2.6.25 seemed a lot better. I haven't tried 27 or 28 yet. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:58:40PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I tried apt-get -d install linux-image -t experimental but it showed only all versions of 2.6.26 How can I download (but NOT install) the latest kernel from experimental? Not debian experimental. The kernel experimental area. deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/ trunk main appears to work. Or just point a web browser at http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/dists/trunk/main/... -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the official Lenny kernel. Or at least be packaged alongside 2.6.26 in the final distribution as an alternative. Well I certainly wouldn't object to 2.6.27 being the Lenny kernel, but I have no say in that matter. That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those for a desktop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 02:07, Robert Isaac rjis...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the official Lenny kernel. Or at least be packaged alongside 2.6.26 in the final distribution as an alternative. Well I certainly wouldn't object to 2.6.27 being the Lenny kernel, but I have no say in that matter. That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, I'm sorry, but that's not the case: Debian is *only* main, non-free is a commodity place we provide for our users, it's not that something broked in non-free would stop the release to happen. so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those for a desktop. That's surely a problem, not a blocking one. What made the release team to decide to stay with .26 is that kernel and security teams assured their support along all the lenny life, that all other thing heavily coupled with the kernel (for example xen, selinux, nfs, etc) have been tested and (almost) proved working with that kernel version. Changing kernel now would be a big mistake. Hope this clarify the situation. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
Robert Isaac wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the official Lenny kernel. Or at least be packaged alongside 2.6.26 in the final distribution as an alternative. Well I certainly wouldn't object to 2.6.27 being the Lenny kernel, but I have no say in that matter. That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those for a desktop. The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28? Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage? What's the deal, anyway? The nVidia blob installer tries to make like it can't find the kernel headers, nor the compiled output. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Where is the kernel?
On 01/05/09 19:52, Mark Allums wrote: Robert Isaac wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the official Lenny kernel. Or at least be packaged alongside 2.6.26 in the final distribution as an alternative. Well I certainly wouldn't object to 2.6.27 being the Lenny kernel, but I have no say in that matter. That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those for a desktop. The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28? Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage? What's the deal, anyway? The nVidia blob installer tries to make like it can't find the kernel headers, nor the compiled output. What version? (I just built a kernel from linux-source-2.6.28, but haven't booted it yet. Still on 2.6.27 snap 12516. Using binary 177.82, kernel 64 bit with 32 bit userland. Works like a charm...) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
