Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[Stephen Patterson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Jul 02, Curtis Rey (crrey@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hi, just wondering when the 2.4.19 kernel will be released.  If anyone has a 
> clue or notion I would like to hear about it.  I have a pcd20272 chip on my 
> mobo (promise/gigabyte ide controller for hde, f , g, h inteface) but the 
> current kernel doesn't support.  However, according to the change log the 
> 2.4.19 will.  I have tried to apply the 2.4.19-rc3 patch but with limited 
> success. the module driver have compiled but when giving the modules_install 
> the modules aren't in /lib/modules/*. I'm sure i have skipped something, but 
> not sure what.  Tried the "patch -p0 <patch-2.4.19-rc3" and always asks for 
> "file to patch", so I did "patch -p1 <patch-2.4.19-rc3" and kernel was 
> patched.  Then I configed, and ran make dep clean bzlilo modules 
> modules_install, went ok.  Then mk_initrd and then lilo but the modules 
> aren't there in /lib/modules - any dirs.  So a cp'ed vmlinuz.2.4.19-4rc3 and 
> the same or it's system map to the boot dir.  Edit lilo.conf and then ran 
> mk_initrd and lilo again load into lilo but on boot 2.4.19-rc3 image goes 
> nowhere.

Check www.kernel.org if you want the standard one. There are some prepatches
for it
-- 
Stephen Patterson
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.