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

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

Thank you, David.

David Fellows wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:15 -0400 
> "John P. Burkett" wrote -
>> Drake Donahue wrote:
>>> Burkett asked: 
>>>
>>> Should I back up any particular files before doing "emerge
>>> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"? You will simply be restoring the
>>> bits that depclean removed.
>>>
>>> No files should need to backed up.
>> Thank you David.  Doing
>> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2
>> produced the following response
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy
>> "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"
> 
> That is true. 2.6.22 has been removed from the portage tree. Your choices are:
> 1) to find some one who still has the 2.6.22-r2 ebuild and the corrresponding 
>    sources and patches and create an overlay from them, then use that to 
>    emerge from.
> 
> 2) find someone who still has the top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2 who will 
>    send it to you. And hope that that is all you are missing.
This appears to be the easiest short term solution.  In looking for the
top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2, do I need to specify that it is to be
used on an amd64 machine or should I expect that any such file might
work on amd64 architecture?

> 
> 3) Upgrade to a newer kernel. Presumably the latest stable that is compatible 
>    with your desired driver version.
> 
> Realistically 3 is your only reasonable option.  The downside is you will have
> to do a kernel configuration that is consistent with your existing 
> configuration.
> 
> You will want to read the kernel upgrade guide first.
>   http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
> 
> Remember that emerging a kernel source only installs the source files. 
> Compiling the kernel is another step.  You may already have a suitable kernel
> source emerged. eselect kernel list will show which are emerged as will
>   ls -l /usr/src
> 
>> I also tried
>> emerge -s gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2-osmp
>> and a few other variations without finding any ebuilds.
> 
> The osmp is a local identifying tag specified by the person that built 
> your kernel. The smp probably means symetric multiprocessor. No idea 
> what the o stands for.
> 
>> Ideas about how to emerge the sources would be very welcome.
>>
> 
> 
> Dave F
> 
> 


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