This may be of use to some of you
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 18:33:39 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 07:49 -0700, Grumpy Penguin wrote:
> http://www.nixforce.com/2006/11/06/suddenly-fedora-core-6/
> excerpt from above
> 1) config.h? We don’t need no stinking config.h
>
> Yeah, it’s not there. Lots of drivers and tools won’t compile properly even
> with kernel-devel installed. Just grab a copy of config.h from a recent
> kernel and drop it into /lib/modules/[KERNEL REV]/build/include/linux.
>
> 2) System beep is painful, at least on this system.
>
> I’m still unsure as to what’s happening here. I just disabled it.
>
> 3) Cisco VPN Client 4.8 won’t build
>
> This is the config.h problem. See above.
>
> 4) nVidia drivers won’t build
>
> Yep, config.h problem. See above. The official nVidia drivers are
> significantly better than the provided xorg ’nv’ driver. Well worth the
> effort. Also, ensure that xorg-x11-server-sdk is installed before installing
> the nVidia drivers. I used the x86-1.0-8776 rev without problem.
I'm not sure that I understand. There are a zillion older open-source
packages that are no longer downward (or would it be upward??)
compatible, and I thought that was the whole idea of linux... that if
someone stopped maintaining your system / business software that with
your own source-code you could just keep it rolling with a re-compile.
Well, it just got a lot more difficult and for what? Why break things??
Is dumping config.h worth the grief?? Start another sux sux sux thread??
<chuckles>
Can you use the 8776 kernel with FC6?? That one has config.h still?
Thanx for this info, it is much needed. Ric
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