HELP - Fedora 14 with kernel 2.6.39-rc5

[mike cloaked]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> On 04/27/2011 10:43 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>> On 04/27/2011 10:36 PM, john wendel wrote:
>>> I've got a couple of boxes running F14 and I thought I'd play with a
>>> 2.6.39 kernel. I currently run 2.6.38.4 on both, so I do know how to
>
>
>  Working fine for me on t61p laptop with nividia ..
>
>  I built using Fedora tools (rather than direct from upstream)
>
>  Specifically:
>
>  Make sure you have the usual tools:
>
>  (i) As root:
>
>      yum install yum-utils rpmdevtools
>
>  (ii) Set up build tree (as user)
>
>       rpmdev-setuptree
>
>  (iii) download src rpm from koji
>         (fix wrapped lines below)
>
>        cd ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS
>
>       wget
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.39/0.rc5.git0.0.fc16/src/kernel-2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc16.src.rpm
>
>  (iii) get any deps -  need root for this.
>
>        su -c 'yum-builddep kernel-2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc16.src.rpm'
>
>   (iv)  install source:
>
>         rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc16.src.rpm
>
>   (v) Build it:
>
>        cd ../SPECS
>
>       rpmbuild -bb --without debug \\
>         --without debuginfo --target=$(uname -m) \\
>         kernel.spec
>
>   (vi) Install rpms :
>
>        cd ~/rpmuild/RPMS/<arch>
>
>        etc ..
>
>  gene/

Thank you for those very clear steps to build the kernel from source.
I used these steps to build the same kernel (built as
2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc14.i686.PAE, with associated kernel-PAE-devel,
kernel-headers and perf rpms) on my f14 laptop.  The build needed
about 8GiB of available hard drive space and took about an hour and 20
minutes on this core duo machine.

This is a Dell laptop with nvidia graphics and this kernel works
beautifully for me - I am using the newly built kernel as I type - and
have no problems on this hardware at all.

Shame that there are no test builds available for updates-testing for
the same version! This looks like a lovely kernel and way snappier
than the current f14 kernel in updates.
-- 
mike c