Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-15 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 14/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Custom Kernel HowTo survived the idiot test by me. One question though: when installing the rpms as the last step (rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm), I get error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000. That means I

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-15 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 15/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ti, 2008-07-15 kello 10:01 +0100, Alan Bartlett kirjoitti: The relevant line now reads: Make sure that you install those rpm files (as root) using either rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm or yum localinstall kernel-*. Just the kind of

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-14 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 14/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked at the updated I Need the Kernel Source HowTo and in my eyes it is now perfect. No doubt a careful person could now succeed in building the kernel tree in one go. Thank you for kind words and very helpful feed-back,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-14 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
ma, 2008-07-14 kello 06:07 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: This is most likely because you missed the step of adding the # i386 (or #x86_64) line. Could you check this out? Akemi That was it, indeed. Looks like Custom Kernel HowTo survived the idiot test by me. One question though: when

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:02:09PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: When I come to think about

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
su, 2008-07-13 kello 08:32 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Antti J. Huhtala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: la, 2008-07-12 kello 22:02 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is a certain level

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
su, 2008-07-13 kello 08:14 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: But before my posting, I had already added a back ticks note in parenthesis on that wiki page. Then Alan woke up (for people who don't know he is in the UK) and made it much nicer. Akemi I just looked at the updated I Need the Kernel

[CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
Hi all, I am a newcomer to CentOS but slightly less so to Linux in general (FC4-F9). In short, I am trying to make an old SB Vibra 16C (ISA) sound card work in Centos 5. To achieve this, support for ISA bus and ISA PnP is apparently needed in kernel. Therefore, a custom kernel needs to be built.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Antti J. Huhtala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Hi Antti, I am a newcomer to CentOS but slightly less so to Linux in general (FC4-F9). In short, I am trying to make an old SB Vibra 16C (ISA) sound card work in Centos 5. To achieve this, support for ISA bus

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:39:46PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Antti J. Huhtala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Hi Antti, d) Two attempts of 'rpmbuild' perhaps failed because I inadvertently used single quotes or apostrophes around 'uname -m' instead of `s

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:39:46PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: This confuses many newcomers (and old timers with bad vision if they're not paying attention.)

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on I Need the Kernel Source Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: There is one (minor) problem with using the $() notation. That is, it does not work in *cough* csh. I said minor because (t)csh users are minority. Anyway,