Matt's Linux Blog

For all you D630 (and possibly D830) users running Ubuntu, I've been trying to make a kernel package that incorporates a working sound driver. I've been building packages with the stock Ubuntu configuration options, pared down a little bit (omitting IDE drivers and things that we'll never use), and I still end up with over 250MB of kernel images, which is about 80MB compressed! I can't figure out at all how Ubuntu kernels are compiled to have only 79MB of modules, uncompressed, giving a 17.6MB package. I'm *not* going to post an 80MB kernel package, so until I figure this out, you'll have to wait or DIY. I'll have access to webspace when I get to Rice on Sunday, so that's where I'll post what I build. This will all be unnecessary when 2.6.23 comes out, since the patch has already been committed.

Labels: d630, ubuntu