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  • From: Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
  • To: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Reconfiguring the running kernel
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:56:55 -0500

I think that automatically running 'make gconfig' or whatever if DISPLAY
is set is a bad idea and I think the user should be asked. Personally I
find menuconfig to be a better choice and I think that the user should
be prompted for which ever configuration tool they want. Maybe if
DISPLAY is set it can ask for the gtk/qt frontend?

Jeremy

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:45, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:32, -={|TooManyMirrors|}=- wrote:
> > Yes, but if i select the same kernel that is already installed it
> > doesn't go to menuconfig, I'm pretty sure it used to though. I guess I
> > could dive into the linux spell but i hear there is much magic there.
> > thought it might be an easy fix or recent change.
> >
> > toomanymirrors
>
> here on my system saying yes to configure the kernel ends up with make
> menuconfig running.
> What you are reporting might be due to the spell now trying to bring up
> the
> GUI interface if DISPLAY is found set. It does this regardless of whether
> root has access to DISPLAY and if it fails I think it might go straight
> onto
> the make portion.
> try either running
> xhost +
> or cast linux from a vt while X isn't running or at least a vt that doesn't
> have DISPLAY set.
> Anyone using an NVIDIA card and their drivers (that wouldn't install if X
> was
> running ) would likely have not found this problem either as they would
> have
> been compiling kernels outside of X for six months or more.
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