Hi, David Haggett a ?crit : [...] > I'm a bit worried about mucking up my system (also used for general purpose > computing), and I was hoping someone could give me some further advice: Several pinguins can live in your box :) > If I patch and reconfigure the kernel source, is that likely to break > future compilation using the default kernel? I usually use /usr/src to put kernel sources (and some other for module, well not always :o ) For example on my laptop which needs unichrome and at least 2.6.11 for i2c and fan control, I have installed several months ago a Kaella (french lang Knoppix version from linux-azur.org) wich had a 2.4.24 kernel. I made lot of config to be able to have fan/temp control, I extracted 2.6.11 kernel sources in /usr/src and change sysmlink /usr/src/linux. So that you could test different sources, just in changing your symlink(s). > Is it possible to copy the contents of /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9/ > to another location (something like /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9-rt) > and apply the patch and compile there, or is it better just to patch > the suse source directly, accessing it via the /usr/src/linux symlink? Don't know in what suse source differ but you can use source from kernel.org. > Also I noticed there's a directory called /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9-obj > Do patches automatically change the kernel identifier so that when I do > a make modules_install it will create a new directory instead of copying > them over the modules from the running kernel? Is there a way to make > sure it does? You could probably edit Makefile. > Is it OK to manually copy the vmlinuz and system.map file into /boot > with a name appropriate to the kernel version? I do like that. > Is it good practice to reference kernels directly in the GRUB menu.lst > by their real names rather than the symlink (when presenting the option > to boot more then one)? vmlinuz should point to your config by default. > > I'm really sorry for the basic questions - I'm still a relative newbie to > Linux. I've thought about trying out a dedicated multimedia distro, but > really comfortable with SuSE now. I am a newbie so and think I will be forever in front of this enormous community work :) > Thanks in advance Hope it will help ! Jody
