Compiling t3h Kernel

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 6:39 am

He has more energy than me. :)

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 11:45 pm

well that was a waste of a few hours, now it wont boot to X and im using links oh well i tihnk ill get redhat tomorrow off my mate and install that instead, damn i need a bigger hard disk

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 12:26 am

You have to reinstall your NVIDIA drivers whenever you install a new kernel. It's in the tip. And if you followed it properly you should still have your old kernel on your boot menu.

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 1:10 am

number 1 i dont have an nvidia card number 2 i already tried that

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 2:59 am

You already tried what? What exactly went wrong? More details would be appreciated.

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 11:48 pm

Ive already tried booting into the other kernel. what went wrong was this: i finished compiling the new kernel and restarted the computer to boot into it and X wouldnt start

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 12:00 am

Did you install 3rd party drivers for whatever video card you do have? If so, like the nVidia drivers, they would need to be installed for the new kernel. What sort of problems did you have trying to boot your old kernel? Any error messages?

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 1:46 am

no i have some stupid sis onbaord card that i dont have anydrivers for apart from the stock one and i got one error on bootup saying i didnt have enough space something or other

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:09 am

by the way i just typed startx in a console to see what errors it would give me and it said
FATAL SERVER ERROR-
"could not open default font 'fixed'"
and that is the only error i get
hrmm pretty weird but if its only a font problem it cant be too hard to fix...

... can it?

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:46 am

Is your "xfs" service running (font server)? When you were "making room" you didn't accidentally delete some fonts did you?

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 3:23 am

i dunno, i installed some msttfont thing the other day but thats about all i can think of that i buggerized with fonts???

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 3:44 am

Had you restarted your machine after installing that msfont thing? If not, my guess is that is where the problems with X started. There is no way compiling the kernel messed up your fonts, and it is true that X will not start without the default fonts. Do a "service xfs restart" and see if there are any errors, if not try and startx again.

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 1:28 am

i have redhat now