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Grapes
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 Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 9:24 pm Post subject: What's in my kernel |
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| This might sound like a stupid quesiton, but is there a command to tell exactly what I put in my kernel. I have my normal kernel, but with no sound. I couldn't get it working. I saved this conifg. Next i played with my externel hard drive and compiled a new kernel for it. Then i played with sound and got that working, but i did it by working with my first config that didn't support my usb hard drive. now i can't seem to get my usb and sound to work. I know i should have saved my usb hard drive kernel as well, but i didn't. So is there are way to tell what i compiled in with the kernel so i can dupicated it? Thanks for any help. |
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Dessimat0r
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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There should be a .config file in the source directory of the kernel.
There is a control applet in KDE that will show you what is in this, or simply copy it to the directory of the new kernel source to duplicate the configuration. |
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PT_LAmb
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... after copying, and running e.g. make menuconfig select Load an Alternate Configuration File and insert .config. The configuration file will be loaded.
Good luck,
Ricardo Cordeiro 
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Grapes
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| yeah, but i changed that .config file so many times. It's not the one i wanted. |
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scocou
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | is there a command to tell exactly what I put in my kernel |
You don't say what kernel version you use but if it's 2.4.20 or newer there's a built in config saved in the kernel, if you chose to include that option. CONFIG_PROC_CONFIG=m/y/n is found in the file systems section, and is verbosely referred to as | Code: | | <M> Kernel configuration visible in /proc/config |
It is also available as a module, perhaps you compiled one instead of building it in. Undeniably a great feature when needed, if included  If any of this is true in your case then... | Quote: | | You can then recreate the .config file by cat /proc/config > /usr/src/linux/.config |
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