David Robertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 16:19, Sascha Noyes wrote:
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> > Hi
> >
> > Just recently got a Compaq Presario 700 series laptop, which does things
> > entirely by ACPI and not APM. I tried to compile 9.0's kernel but ran into
> > trouble.
> >
> > 1) make xconfig
> >
> > Here are the things that I changed from the default values:
> >
> > Processor type and features > Processor Family : from 586 to athlon/duron/k7
> >
> > Processor type and features > Local APIC support on uniprocessors: from 'yes'
> > to 'no'
> >
> > General Setup > ACPI support > from 'no' to 'yes'
> > and all the other ACPI options in General Setup from 'no' to 'yes'
> >
> >
> > 2) make dep
> >
> > 3) make clean
> >
> > 4) make bzImage
> >
> > 5) make modules
> >
> > 6) make modules_install
> >
> > This process exits with these last couple of lines:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > make -C arch/i386/lib modules_install
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/arch/i386/lib'
> > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/arch/i386/lib'
> > cd /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkcustom; \
> > mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> > find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
> > if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.19-16mdkcustom;
> > fi
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkcustom/kernel/drivers/hotplug/ibmphp.o
> > depmod: IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector
> >
> > </snip>
> >
> > It must be possible to build the kernel with ACPI, but without APIC as I have
> > seen numerous website who suggest doing just that. Is this something specific
> > to the mandrake kernel? Maybe I'll try the stock one.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Sascha Noyes
> >
> I owned a Toshiba Satellite until recently that depended on acpi for IRQ
> routing and found that I could only get things running smoothly if I
> compiled a vanilla kernel,with the latest acpi patch from sourceforge
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi) None of the standard distribution
> kernels seemed to do the job fully and it is difficult to get suitable
> patches for them, so I would just compile your own.Using the options you
> mentioned should then be fine, I think.
>
> David
> My toshiba sat had the same problems until I moved to cooker. Cooker kernel (2.4.20-2) has acpi on by default and works great. Stable as hell even though it is a development release. Worth a try and no more kernel recompiles. -- Simon Rée [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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