Comments on: Compile and run the Ubuntu Lucid kernel on Ubuntu Karmic

By: srinath

srinath — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:04:34 +0000

i compiled as per steps…..but
—”cp debian.master/abi/2.6.32-20.30/i386/generic debian.master/abi/2.6.32-20.30/i386/core2
—-cp debian.master/abi/2.6.32-20.30/i386/generic.modules debian.master/abi/2.6.32-20.30/i386/core2.modules”
said —could not stat ;error not file or directory
so i skipped too next steps run till end..
At last latest kernel is not showing in grub
plz help

By: henris

henris — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:38:48 +0000

got solution nice tut thank You.

By: henris

henris — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:28:43 +0000

on first compilation i get error( make: *** [install-tools] Error 1) all tools seem to be updated im on karmic

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:19:32 +0000

The problem is with the Nouveau driver, why Ubuntu made it default has to do with the fact it’s Open Source and not closed like the official nVidia driver.
Another way to disable the driver, without recompiling, is adding it to the module blacklist.
Edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and add the line
blacklist nouveau

By: Blazewardog

Blazewardog — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:53:53 +0000

Thanks for the info about Nouveau needing to be disabled. After recompiling my new kernel works perfectly. Although this makes me wonder, why do you need to compile it without Nouveau, does it have the same driver name as the binary one? Or did they just do it to mess with Nvidia?

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:06:41 +0000

By default the opensource nVidia driver Nouveau is enabled in Lucid which can cause problems.
I Just finished an article on tips for configuring the kernel, explaining this problem besides other tips and I decided to publish it earlier as planned to help out, see the article here:
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2010/04/17/configuration-tips-for-the-ubuntu-lucid-kernel/

By: Blazewardog

Blazewardog — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:14:22 +0000

I followed your guide here on Lucid and everything seemed to compile fine, however once I rebooted with the new kernel, my nvidia drivers would not load at all. Any clue how I can fix this?