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sumpi
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 Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directo |
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Hi all!
I am not new to linux but to gentoo. I installed today from the liveCD 2006.0 on an IBM Thinkpad A31p. Allmost everything seemed to work fine, except, that my soundsystem is not working. I read through the docs and found the howto for making alsa work. So I tried to follow the instructions to install the correct driver for my intel-sound-card (intel8x0 should do it)
But the strange thing is, that I can not install, as I have no configuration for my kernel-sources. I had a quick look in /boot, as normally you can create a link, but there is no .config either. So what do I have to do, to make it work. As I do not know, what has been configured so make menuconfig is not the best choice...
Any other hints would be great!
Another thing, which kind of disturbed me, was the missing entries for my cdrom/dvdrom in /etc/fstab. I created it and it works now, but why shouldn this be done by the installer?
Thanks in advance!
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mirojira
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Your .config sould be in /usr/src/linux |
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infjms00
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Your .config file should be at /usr/src/linux. You can do a zcat /proc/config.gz >> /usr/src/linux/.config to generate one, althoug I'd rather use make menuconfig after to modify it. |
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sumpi
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| infjms00 wrote: | | Your .config file should be at /usr/src/linux. You can do a zcat /proc/config.gz >> /usr/src/linux/.config to generate one, althoug I'd rather use make menuconfig after to modify it. |
Thanks for the hint... I know, that .config should reside in /usr/src/linux/ but there is none. At least find . -name .config did not show any...
I will give zcat /proc/config.gz a try!
thanks,
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nevynxxx
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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The .config is created when you configure the kernel either by using
or one of the other interfaces( gtk etc...see the README)
the zcat thing only works if the currently running kernel supports it, and once you have done that you need to either do the above anyway, or run
both of these from within the /usr/src/linux directory.
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