3.7.2-18 kernel broken for nvidia FX5200 in latest Tumbleweed kernel ?

[oldcpu]

@"jdmcdaniel3

oldcpu, I seem to remember you saying it took a very long time on a PC to compile the kernel. But, that is what sleeping time is for. Fire up the compile, go to bed, and see what you get in the morning. The script does play a sound when a compile is complete, so I would mute the speakers before you went to bed. I would put the terminal screen in the foreground, disable all screen savers and such and have no other foreground tasks running.

My curiousity is ‘perked’ on this, so I did a search for that old post of mine, and found it … post was in February 2011 (two years ago !! ) … and I quote it below:

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@jdmcdaniel3

Well I am happy to hear you found your problem. I do wonder why you had a problem with my script file as it does not default to the config name you said you used manually.

jdmcdaniel3, your script is very good. It takes the pain out of compiling a Kernel for users who are new to building a kernel and who do not need to optimize the kernel, but who rather are happy to use generic openSUSE settings with a more recent kernel.

IMHO its very well done, and many thanks.

Here is a print from running this on my rather ancient sandbox PC (athlon-1100 w/1GB RAM):
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304 minutes (ie just over 5 hours) … although maybe closer to 7 hours when one adds up all the various times - which not as long as I remembered, but a far cry from your 12 minutes with your blazingly fast PC .

Still its something that could be done on a Sunday. So I installed 12.3 RC1 (using nomodeset so to get the VESA driver) on my old PC with the FX5200 nvidia graphics, and I have started your kernel build script to see if that it builds a kernel (3.6.11 version) on this 12.3 RC1 where the nouveau driver with 12.3 RC1 will work graphically (without the gui corruption that 12.3 RC1 with its 3.7.x kernel gets).

Its currently less than 1/2 way (129 minutes into the kernel build) but my curiousity is perked as to whether this will work. Its possible other libraries/packages will need to be rebuilt against the 3.6.11 kernel for this to work - and its possible they won’t be required - I simply don’t know. But I am curious.