On 16/02/10 22:31, Charlie de Courcy wrote:
> I'm going round in circles and banging my head against a brick wall so
> it's time to call in the experts :)
>
> To set the scene I'm running Fedora 12 with 2.6.31.5-127
>
> I've bought a shiny new samsung laptop. Problem is that it appears the
> hardware is *too* new. Everything seems to be up and running apart from
> the onboard NIC (Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 4318), and
> wireless card (Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8192).
> I'm just focussing on the ethernet at the moment, the wireless I'll dig
> into when I can actually get some packets flowing.
> The device is supported under kernel 2.6.32.8, so I'm trying to get this
> onto the networkless laptop.
>
> I've downloaded the source from kernel.org on my other laptop, run 'make
> menuconfig' and set what I believe to be the right (and safe) options.
> Then 'make bzImage', 'make modules' and 'make rpm'. This all ran without
> failure and I moved my fresh rpm over to the new laptop.
>
> I ran 'rpm -ivh kernel.blah' and it installed seemingly successfully.
> 'mkinitrd /boot/initrd-.blah blah' to create the ramdisk image.
> I was however expecting the rpm install to update my menu.lst but it
> didn't. I believe I've put everything in the right places, using the
> default entry as a basis:
>
> title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686)
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/luks-2ddd7768-d55b-4b7c-857d-d346505c3bed noiswmd
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk
> rhgb quiet
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.img
> title Fedora (2.6.32.8.fc12.i686)
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.8 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/luks-2ddd7768-d55b-4b7c-857d-d346505c3bed noiswmd
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk
> rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.32.8.img
>
> However it doesn't work... after going through the password prompt for
> LVM decrypt I'm just left with a flashing cursor. Output of
> /var/log/messages points towards massive X display failures: "GDM
> Display lasted 0.080075 seconds". Xorg.log says that screens are found
> but none have a usable configuration.
and X -configure :0 does what?
> What am I missing..? Could anyone assist please or point me towards a
> better way of doing things or how I can troubleshoot further? At this
> point in time everything has to be transferable via usb key...
have you tried installing the rawhide kernel?
at the time of writing this is
2.6.33-0.44.rc8.git0.fc13 rawhide 21 M
with some dependencies on
linux-firmware
grubby
It could be worth a try, anyway.
Stuart
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