compiling 64 bit kernel on 32 bit system

2009-12-27 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, I am trying to compile a 64 bit kernel on my system. After having created the .config from an old config file with: make ARCH=x86_64 menuconfig and simply using the .config thus generated, when I do: fakeroot make-kpkg --arch amd64 --append-to-version custom-amd64 --initrd kernel_image

Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-21 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi,     I am trying to compile Linux kernel 2.6.29-1 as described here http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html, section 4.4, i.e. I copy the /boot/config-2.6.26-1-686 to untarred linux kernel directory as .config and after doing make menuconfig, when I try to do make-kpkg

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-21 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take a look into /var/log/syslog and/or dmesg output. You will probably find messages about hard disk errors. Post them here if you have

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-21 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, Posting the output of 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' (from smartmontools, insert your hard drive device name) might help as well. The output from smatctl is fairly cryptic for me, posting it below: sudo smartctl -a /dev/hdc1 smartctl

Re: Problem configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-07 Thread Divick Kishore
You are not doing anything wrong; the driver was removed from the Debian kernels. Here are the relevant snippets from the changelog: linux-2.6 (2.6.23-1) unstable; urgency=low * Remove binary only firmwares for: - Cirrus Logic (Sound Fusion) CS4280/CS461x/CS462x/CS463x *

Problem configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-05 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, I am trying to unable to configure my sound card on debian. The sound system that I have is Terratec SiXPack 5.1+. There is no sound on my system and on running alsamixer I see the following ouput: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device Doing lspci | grep

Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following: /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01) But when I try to

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following: /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01) But

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Divick Kishore
[Please don't reply to me personally, as per the list's code of conduct.] Oh Sorry about that...I just hit the replyall button in my email client. Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Divick Kishore
But I don´t want to write to that disk, only read. I tried changing the entry in my fstab to ´ro´ but it is of no use. I still see the same permission issue. Not sure why is this happening. Well, you can't be surprised that you can't chown, since the filesystem is RO, and if the