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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

Yeah I ran into this the other day when it ran the gconfig instead of
the menuconfig I prefer.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:56 -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote:

> 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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