[wplug] make menuconfig
Tom McCullough
mccull1 at attbi.com
Thu Feb 20 17:31:36 EST 2003
Hi everyone,
I am trying my first kernel compile and ran into a snag. I have Debian
'Woody' with 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel loaded on a Compaq presario 1655
laptop. I have everything except sound working. I had RH8.0 on it
earlier and had sound so I know it works. I think I had the sb module
set up in lilo.conf with an append statement. If I run sndconfig I can
get the "This is Linus Torvalds......." audio test, but in X/Gnome 1.4 I
can't get any wave files to play. I decided to be brave and downloaded
the 2.4.20 kernel sources from kernel.org and try a compile. Now the
real problem (no sound doesn't bother me that much, it just started me
on this path) I get a message that I can't use menuconfig because
libncurses is not found. I checked dselect and found that it was
installed and I found libncurses.so.5.2 in /lib.
Is there something I am missing? I am using make config for this
attempt, but I'm a little overwelmed by the array of choices. I have
been using the config-2.4.18-bf2.4 file as a guideline, but I still am
not sure if I have too little or too much compiled into my kernel. The
first attempt started to boot and the screen went blank. After about 2
minutes and no more HD sound, I decided to C/A/D but had to force a
shutdown with the power button.
Sorry if this is too verbose, but I am getting nowhere and could use
some pointers.
Tom.........................
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