From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MISBb-00066H-AO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:54:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0584EE0396; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173009pub.verizon.net (vms173009pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.9]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7624E0396 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.20] ([96.233.148.239]) by vms173009.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KLL00LSXR715WK2@vms173009.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:54:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <4A3E81EC.8080404@uri.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:54:36 -0400 From: "John P. Burkett" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090608) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge -eav system failed with ati-drivers References: <4A3E721D.5090707@uri.edu> <1245606910.31323.4.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> <20090621141712.4a279357@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-reply-to: <20090621141712.4a279357@osage.osagesoftware.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1b150935-5a3d-460f-a66b-2dd941c56ce6 X-Archives-Hash: a7c7823ca8126cde02301321231cfe46 David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:55:10 -0400 > Drake Donahue wrote: > >> >> >> 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 > > -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195