HID support won't compile rpoperly

[zenon]

If I compile HID as a module the kernel and everything goes as planned until it comes time to load the HID module then I get a MESS of errors, I managed to catch mmx and not much else... At first I couldn't even get my kernel to compile, but after a

[Delphiki]

Well, if you're going to compile a new kernel you need to choose which sources you're going to use. I've had good experiences with gentoo-sources, ck-sources, and vanilla-sources, ck-sources and gentoo-sources are more experimental which generally means faster but have some downsides once in a while. There are others you can choose, but for whichever you choose it would be something along the lines of..

emerge vanilla-sources

Then you should make a symlink at /usr/src/linux pointing to the directory in /usr/src which contains the sources that you are going to use.
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Excellent..

[zenon]

Thanks for the tip.

I was thinking of the ck sources, is this the wrong forum? there aren't any views...I was hoping someone could help me figure out what's wrong, dloading a new kernel is a sorta last-ditch hail mary effort...