Subj : Re: qm_modules / 2.6.9
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Grant Diffey
Date : Sun Feb 27 2005 10:40 pm

shawn modersohn wrote:

> Posted this yesterday in linux.kernel with no replies as of yet.
> 
> I started out with the Debian Woody bf24 kernel.  I have compiled a
> 2.6.9 kernel but I get the qm_modules function not implemented error.
>  From what I have found so far, the problem typically lies in the need
> for a newer module-init-tools.  I have installed module-init-tools 3.0.
>    (no joy with 3.1, it complains of a docbook error 127) Modprobe
> reports version 2.4.15.  At first I couldn't modprobe at all without
> seeing the error.  Now, after I boot with the 2.6.9 kernel, I can
> modprobe usbcore, soundcore, etc., but during boot, I catch the glimpse
> of the same old error.  Ultimately, I can login into X but totally
> without mouse support.
> 
> The fact that after booting I can modprobe seems to suggest I only got
> something half right.  Is it perhaps the lack of module-init-tools 3.1?
> I am just now starting to understand linux so something might have
> slipped through the cracks.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks.

You can't run Linux 2.6 in woody without some newer packages.Get them at
http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/woody/kernel-26.html or just upgrade to
sarge if it's a desktop I'd just get sarge.


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