Re: [Sheflug] SuSE 7.2 kernel source

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:

    >> I've enabled it and maybe will find out more later.  No doubt I
    >> shouldn't use xconfig :-) but I'm still a novice with a poor
    >> memory for acronyms.

    Alex> xconfig is fine. I personally use 'make menuconfig', which
    Alex> is practically the same interface, just using text. It's
    Alex> actually much faster to tweak a kernel config in
    Alex> menuconfig/xconfig, which you will no doubt want to do when
    Alex> you get into kernel compiling and start playing with things.

I second that, IMHO menuconfig is much quicker than xconfig, and
certainly easier than plain "config" - I always seem to end up
polishing the resulting .config off with XEmacs if I use config :-(

Is there a reason why the options selected after a make mrproper are
weird some times? I sometimes notice wierd sound cards and/or SCSI
controllers etc selected after a mrproper - why?

Is copying a .config in to the kernel tree and using make oldconfig a
reliable way of building kernels? I tend to run make menuconfig each
time, and it's just a bit tiresome when the hardware hasn't changed
:-)

Cheers.

Baz.


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