Re: Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21 [RESOLVED]

2007-07-09 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> You can either rebuild the kernel and turn that off (Note: but in |> that case I had hard hangs in qemu!) *or* use the descriptions |> in that page to rebuild the kbuild .deb and install nvidia so it does |> not mind paravirt. Just to close out the t

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Extensively discussed here: |> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=90214 |> |> The problem is that post 2.6.18 Debian kernels have PARAVIRT_CONFIG |> and nvidia does not like that. |> |> You can either rebuild the kernel and turn that o

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 05:00:06 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia > > graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia > > kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that a

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all worked fine. A few days later, I upgraded to kernel package 2.6.18.2-

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 6 2007 11:19:55 pm Jim McCloskey wrote: > Hello. > > I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia > graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia > kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all > worked fine. > > A few days la

nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-06 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all worked fine. A few days later, I upgraded to kernel package 2.6.18.2-686 (from lenny) to re

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-12 Thread Chris Waters
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [with an unattributed quote from Chris:)] > > That's no excuse for off-topic posts! I mean, by that logic, > > *everyone* should move all their questions to deb-laptops. > Everyone who has a laptop. No -- general questions about Debian that aren't spec

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Brad
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > Actually, it's not really about "newer", it's about having a > version number that sorts later, so, one possibility is to use a > special version number that will always sort later. This is the trick > suggested for custom kernels.

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Please format your emails to 76 characters or less. On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:33:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After doing a apt-get upgrade apt downloaded and installed the debian > > Speaking of it, how would one put a package on hold echo 'package_name hold' | dpkg --set-selection

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread dan
> After doing a apt-get upgrade apt downloaded and installed the debian Speaking of it, how would one put a package on hold, apt-get manual doesn't state how to do it. I always have this problem of getting the same version package, as I just compiled and installed via 'apt-get upgrade' overinsta

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Running on the theory that it might help speed up my Pentium II system > > (debatable, but that's beside the point), I've tried > > recompiling a selection of packages with pentium optimi

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Chris Waters
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running on the theory that it might help speed up my Pentium II system > (debatable, but that's beside the point), I've tried > recompiling a selection of packages with pentium optimisation, downloading > the debian source and running `./debian/rules bina

Re: package compilation

1997-02-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This was a bug in kernel-package which has now been corrected. manoj >>"Daniel" == Daniel J Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> It looks like you new kernel was made after all. I would copy Daniel> it to the right place /boot/vmlinuz and use it. I think your Daniel> p

Re: package compilation

1997-02-20 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hiya, Thanks for your note. I guess I was a bit misleading about "patching". The patch I used was a buslogic flashpoint patch for my scsi controller. Not a kernel patch. I got the new 2.0.29 complete sources before I tried to compile. Sorry 'bout that... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: package compilation

1997-02-19 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: > I've run into a snag making a kernel package for version 2.0.29. I got > new sources, patched them, did a "make-kpkg clean" and then a "make-kpkg Why patch the new sources? I thought you only needed to patch if you had 2.0.28 sources and wanted to upgra

Re: package compilation

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package > version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info > to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it,

Re: package compilation

1997-02-18 Thread srivasta
Hi, Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it, but this time it snuck up and changed Feb to February in the changelog, causing d

Re: package compilation

1997-02-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Could you please mail me the debian/changelog file? Also, could you run dpkg-gencontrol manually and see if it sheds any more light? Also, Could you give the version of kernel-package installed? manoj -- "IT'S THE TWO GODDAMNED CULTURES AGAIN !*! Bit-brained nerdery on on