At the beginning of the year the Linux kernel 3.2 was released and Canonical has made it the official kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), but what if you want to run the Linux kernel 3.2 on your Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)? Well you can, by compiling your own version following this step by step guide. We’ll be using the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS version of the Linux Kernel 3.2
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As of Ubuntu Jaunty’s kernel 2.6.28-15.49 the kernel developers have made changes to the kernel source. The changes have such a big impact on how to compile a kernel for Ubuntu Jaunty that I had to revise my previous article. Lots ot the text in this article will look extremely similar to my previous article, but there are some big changes. If you already got the kernel source using git you will have to read my article on how to update the kernel sources to the latest version at my article Ubuntu Jaunty kernel sources changes.
Lets get started with creating our own custom kernel for Ubuntu Jaunty from scratch.
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In February of 2009 I wrote an article on how to compile mplayer with vdpau support. Since then things have changed a little bit with mplayer and compiling mplayer with vdpau support has become a whole lot easier.
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Ubuntu Jaunty has been released a few days ago so it’s time write up an article on how to compile your own kernel for Ubuntu Jaunty.
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In this article I’ll show you how you can compile mplayer with VDPAU support on Ubuntu Intrepid but first I’ll try to explain why you would want to recompile mplayer with VDPAU support.
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