Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#1747 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Kernel 2.6.16

Reported by: ryan@… Owned by: lfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

2.6.16 kernel released

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Chris Staub, 18 years ago

Along with 2.6.16, the note about GCC 2.95.3 can probably be removed. The Documentation for 2.6.16 now says GCC >= 3.2 is recommended.

comment:2 by martyman99999@…, 18 years ago

Small downside, the Nvidia accelerated driver won't build. I've isolated it to a kernel header change. Should have a patch in a day or so. Not going to let a little thing like that hold me on 2.6.15.6.

comment:3 by Matthew Burgess, 18 years ago

How do you patch a binary driver? If you're thinking of patching the kernel headers to make them compatible with said binary driver please don't waste your time as I won't accept it. Complain to your binary vendor! If, on the other hand, the new version of the kernel breaks a package in LFS or BLFS and full source code is available then feel free to send patches this way, they'll be much appreciated.

comment:4 by martyman99999@…, 18 years ago

Part is binary (an object module that goes in the kernel driver and an X extension library and an OpenGL library) and a small part is compiled on site to match the running kernel. The flaw is in the configure script and makefile for the kernel interface.

I won't be wasting my time in any case since I want it to work. The font rendering is much nicer with the accelerated driver and you get OpenGL.

comment:5 by martyman99999@…, 18 years ago

Okay, it is successfully installed. I'll send this to NVIDIA. Patch (to conftest.sh) on request.

comment:6 by Matthew Burgess, 18 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Superceded by ticket #1753.

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