[Ilugc] Re: 2.6 kernel (debian) error - Solved
- From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
- Date: Mon Sep 20 15:25:00 2004
Mohan Raj wrote:
Ok... I got the problem solved and am running a 2.6.8.1 kernel. Just
for the records I want this scrambled-up howto to be documented.
that is the easy way out - and it should work for people who dont want
to compile their own kernels.
one tip is to compile as many things as are absolutely essential during
bootup (required filesystems etc) into the kernel, and compile other
stuff (network / video etc) as modules.
another way to go would be to get a debian source package, edit the
config file to add / remove certain options (such as removing a bunch of
stuff compiled into the kernel that you dont use, or stopping the
compilation of modules for a whole lot of hardware that you dont have)
and do a make-kpkg to build a new kernel deb for your system, compiled
to your processor instead of for i386
doing an apt-get as part of its process. Then X went beyond that point
and now errored that it could not find the device /dev/psaux. The dev
fs seems to have been changed in 2.6. IIRC cat /proc/bus/input/devices
revealed only the keyboard. So I added mousedev and psmouse to
hotplug and udevd for 2.6 .. see if you have a package called udevd or
udev in debian and install that.
srs
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