Steven Augart wrote:

I've been running 7.1 with the SuSE packaged 2.4.2 kernel update on my machines.

Ran into trouble with the IBM Thinkpad 600:

The ``tpctl'' package only provides modules in /lib/modules/2.4.0. This is not the modules directory used by any of the 7.1 releases or updates of the k_deflt* package(s). The CD's k_deflt_24.rpm uses /lib/modules/2.4.0-4GB. The CD's k_deflt.rpm uses /lib/modules/2.2.18. The SuSE-Updated updated k_deflt_24.rpm uses /lib/modules/2.4.2-4GB.

I tried just copying the tpctl modules from /lib/modules/2.4.0 to the other directories; of course, it didn't work because the kernels were compiled with different symbol tables. Then I tried doing a build from the tpctl source RPM, with ``rpm -bc''. Another miserable failure; get the error message

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/tpctl_1.0/tpctl' gcc -L../lib -I../include -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -Wno-uninitialized -DLINUX -DVIAGRA -o tpctl.o -c tpctl.c tpctl.c:46: term.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [tpctl.o] Error 1

Has anybody built modules for the stock SuSE 2.4.0-4GB, 2.2.18, or 2.4.2-4GB?

By the way, I thought I would provide such myself. So I tried to build the SuSE 2.4.2-4GB directly from the sources installed by SuSE-Update/7.1/d2/lx_sus24-2.4.2.SuSE-5.i386.rpm. I did not get quite the same kernel out as the SuSE-Update k_deflt24 one; here is an extract from the differences in the System.map:

--- System.map-2.4.2-4GB-distrpm Fri Mar 2 04:14:14 2001 +++ System.map-2.4.2-rebuilt-4GB Sat Apr 7 19:53:41 2001 @@ -175,62 +175,62 @@ c010a9c0 t mark_screen_rdonly c010aa28 T sys_vm86old c010ab0c T sys_vm86 -c010ac08 t do_sys_vm86 +c010ac14 t do_sys_vm86 c010acfc t do_int c010ae18 T handle_vm86_trap c010aef0 T handle_vm86_fault c010b644 t irq_handler c010b694 t do_vm86_irq_handling -c010b910 t putreg +c010b900 t putreg +c010b9b0 t getreg +c010ba04 T sys_ptrace

So, I'm willing to build the proper RPMs for others, but I don't want to do that if I can't even reproduce the distributed kernel.

With the SuSE 2.2.4-4gb kernel sources you can edit the top makefile to get rid of the 4gb part. Just make sure the EXTRAVERSION line in the begining is blank then look thru the rest of the Makefile for where they test whether or not you have 4gb enabled in your .config file. If you have 4gb enabled in the .config file I beleive they set the EXTRAVERSION. You want to comment out that stuff. Why they did that is beyond me but has definatly caused many greef. I've never seen the rebuild stuff as shown above but basically make sure that EXTRAVERSION does not get set to anything and also the MODLIB variable should not get set to anything other than 2.4.2. Recompile your kernel reboot and then try it. Mark Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com