Suse 7.2 Personal kernel build/install problems

[bluearcus]

Hi,

I've installed Suse 7.2 Personal recently, and am working through setting up the hardware config. Things were going fine, having got sound, X11 (+NVidia drivers) etc. working pretty quickly.

I now needed to recompile my kernel with ATAPI SCSI emulation enabled for my CDRW drive.

I followed the usual procedure, in the source tree, doing a make xconfig, and tweaking the SCSI settings as required, then doing a fell recompile. Anyway, after copying the kernel image, liloing etc, it boots fine.

However, I've now lost USB support, and personal firewall complains about IPchains support also being missing. Worse though, X11 now will not boot, claiming a duff config (no valid screens for the available modes).

I've not changed the X11 config at all, and switching back to the old kernel with LiLo, everying is still fine.

Any ideas? I can drop USB back in, obviously, but where in the kernel config do I set IPchains up? And what's gone awry with X?

Thanks...

Mike Miller

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

The ipchains config would be under networking somewhere. For compatibility, it might be advisable to work out whether your 'vanilla' install provided ipchains as a module or built-in to the kernel and take the same option for your new kernel. Do :

cd /lib/modules
find -name 'ipchains*'

If it comes up with something in the modules sub-directory for the original kernel then you can choose 'module' for that particular option under 'make xconfig' - otherwise choose 'built-in'.

On the X problem, you probably missed out compling support for your video card, etc. Its under a heading like console drivers . (can't check right now as I'm not at a linux machine!)

Hope this helps