Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge -eav system failed with ati-drivers

["John P. Burkett" <burkett@uri.edu>]

David Relson wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:55:10 -0400
> Drake Donahue wrote:
> 
>> <snip>
>>
>> I'm guessing you did an "emerge --depclean" sometime after compiling
>> the 2.6.22-r2 kernel and after emerging a new gentoo-sources that
>> erased your make files, This is something depclean loves to do while
>> leaving 99% of the older kernel source files intact.
>> I think depclean leaves your .config file in place. Been a few weeks
>> since I burned myself last with this one. 
>> If you were following directions back in 2007 you should have a
>> stored 2.6.22-r2 config in the /boot directory.
>>
>> Try "emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2 to re-emerge the old
>> package and regain the make files. What the osmp is about beats me.
>>
>> or
>>
>> Emerge a new gentoo-sources, eselect it, configure, compile, install a
>> new (current) kernel.
> 
> My understanding is that ati-drivers expects /usr/src/linux to contain
> the source of the currently running kernel.
> 
> I'm running a 2.6.28 kernel.  I have downloaded 2.6.30 and built that
> but have not yet rebooted.  "emerge ati-drivers" failed with 2.6.30
> in /usr/src/linux.  Changing directory names allowed ati-drivers to
> build happily.
> 

David, thank you for sharing your experience. On my system, doing "uname
-r" gets the response "2.6.22-gentoo-r2-osmp".  In my /usr/src/linux
directory I currently have a .config file starting with the lines
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.22-gentoo-r2
# Mon Sep  3 21:48:37 2007
Can you suggest how to change directory names to allow the ati-drivers
to build?

Best regards,
John



> HTH,
> 
> David
> 
> 





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