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

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

David Relson wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:54:36 -0400
> John P. Burkett wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> John,
> 
> /usr/src/linux is what I'd want to see.  Do you have just a few files
> (like .config) or the full kernel source? 
Thanks for your continuing help with the ati-driver problem.  Doing "ls
-al" in my /usr/src/linux directory produces the following list:
total 28451
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root    1088 Jun  8 01:16 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     136 Jun  8 01:19 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     440 Sep  4  2007 ..tmp_kallsyms1.o.cmd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     440 Sep  4  2007 ..tmp_kallsyms2.o.cmd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     636 Sep  4  2007 ..tmp_vmlinux1.cmd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     652 Sep  4  2007 ..tmp_vmlinux2.cmd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   47220 Jun 21 13:34 .config
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   47220 Sep  3  2007 .config.old
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     365 Sep  4  2007 .missing-syscalls.d
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1418737 Sep  4  2007 .tmp_System.map
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1578817 Sep  4  2007 .tmp_kallsyms1.S
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  735072 Sep  4  2007 .tmp_kallsyms1.o
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1578817 Sep  4  2007 .tmp_kallsyms2.S
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  735072 Sep  4  2007 .tmp_kallsyms2.o
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   10176 Sep  4  2007 .tmp_versions
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 9069262 Sep  4  2007 .tmp_vmlinux1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 9388791 Sep  4  2007 .tmp_vmlinux2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       2 Sep  4  2007 .version
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     640 Sep  4  2007 .vmlinux.cmd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  252456 Sep  4  2007 Module.symvers
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1418737 Sep  4  2007 System.map
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      96 Jun  8 01:16 arch
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     752 Jun  8 01:16 block
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    6640 Jun  8 01:16 crypto
drwxr-xr-x 35 root root     968 Jun  8 01:16 drivers
drwxr-xr-x 35 root root    4936 Jun  8 01:16 fs
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     152 Jun  8 01:16 include
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     736 Jun  8 01:16 init
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     680 Jun  8 01:16 ipc
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root    3832 Jun  8 01:16 kernel
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    4512 Jun  8 01:16 lib
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    2616 Jun  8 01:16 mm
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root     856 Jun  8 01:16 net
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root     320 Jun  8 01:16 scripts
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     208 Jun  8 01:16 security
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root     904 Jun  8 01:16 sound
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     424 Jun  8 01:16 usr
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 9388791 Sep  4  2007 vmlinux

Does that appear to have what ati-drivers should need?

Best regards,
John


 It's my understanding that
> ati-drivers need the full kernel source.  Likely they use (or check)
> some of the kernel's internal header files to "match up" the driver
> with the kernel it's running against.
> 
> If you've got the full kernel source, then all I can suggest is
> getting source for the newest kernel, building it (using your
> old .config as the starting point), rebooting, and (finally) emerging
> ati-drivers.  The steps up to and including rebooting should provide a
> consistent kernel version and source tree and make ati-drivers happy.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> David
> 
> 


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