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On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:52 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> Sascha Noyes wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 17 December 2002 07:30 pm, Simon Ree wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> > I've installed cooker and 9.0 on the laptop. Unfortunately cooker locks
> > hard early in the boot process (It's got something to do with an IRQ,
> > IIRC), even before logging begins. Apparently with the presario 700
> > series you have to disable APIC in the kernel though, i tried booting
> > with 'noapic' and with ACPI enabled, but that locked up as well. I tried
> > recompiling the cooker kernel to suit my needs, but ran into trouble
> > rather early in the process (during make bzImage), anyway I'll post that
> > to the cooker list.
> >
> > Thanks for the help, I'll try recompiling a standard kernel, I just hope
> > it plays nicely with the rest of the system.
> >
> > Sascha
>
> Do you make mrproper as the first step? Move .config out of the way if
> you want to use it or use /boot/config but mrproper should be the first
> step.
Sorry but I have no idea what 'make mrproper' is. Do you mean use it before
'make xconfig'?
And the '.config' file - should I move that away while using mrproper? Or for
the whole process? And what is the relationship between .config in
/usr/src/linux/ and /boot/config.
Thanks,
Sascha
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