On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:51:57PM -0500, Shawn Fertch wrote: > On 14 May 2002 21:38:33 -0500 > Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > > you might also want to compile your kernel > > to `make CPU idle calls when idle' (I think there's a kernel boot option > > for doing that as well) I'm pretty sure that this is the default... > I'm not sure what > 90% of the options are they ask, that's why I did the oldconfig option. (Please wrap your text.) If you used oldconfig on your first kernel compile, I'm not surprised it didn't work. oldconfig looks at your previous .config and only asks about new options offered in the version you're currently building. If you don't have a previous .config for it to look at, I would expect it to, at best, fall back to a standard 'make config', which gains you nothing. At worst, it could show you some config options and not others, in which case I would expect your problems to be that some of the answers it assumed on questions it didn't ask were just plain wrong. Try a 'make menuconfig' and make frequent use of the '?' key to get help on what the options mean. (Yeah, a lot of them don't have useful documentation on the help screen, but a lot of them do, too.) -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss