[Linux-disciples] Keyboard and mouse cut out

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:45:04PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> Hm, are you using the latest version of make-kpkg from unstable?

Apparently not; it must have been coming out of stable. So that's fixed
now.

> Typically, you should compile from /usr/src/linux rather than
> ~/linux-2.4.22, but that really shouldn't cause the problem below.

The README gave some reason for not using /usr/src/linux ... lessee ...

/*
   Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually
   incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header
   files.  They should match the library, and not get messed up by
   whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be.
*/

Not sure if I should adhere to that, but it sounded pretty definitive.

> Have you built the kernel successfully before on this system? Do you have
> all the prereqs?

I'm pretty sure I've built the kernel successfully before, but I don't
really remember. As for the prereqs: I just noticed that for some reason
I didn't have coreutils and a bunch of other packages installed. So I did
that.

Now I notice that kernel-source-2.4.22 is in Debian, so I'll try that.

> I believe I build with gcc 3.3.2, not 2.95, you might want to get the
> package gcc-3.3 just to see if that fixes it.

I'm not sure how to force 3.3.2; it picks 2.95 by default. Unless I
missed something, it looks like both versions are now installed on my
machine. If that's not possible, then 3.3 must be the currently installed
one; I just installed it out of unstable.

> Also, make sure you make-kpkg clean first.

I had done that.

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