ill...@gmail.com wrote: > 2009/7/21 PJ <af.gour...@videotron.ca>: > >> Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I >> have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without >> problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default >> GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine is Turion with some other >> name for the cpu. >> Changing that does not fix things either. >> > > AFIK (IANAMSP) "HAMMER" is the only valid setting for cpu > in your kernel config under amd64. If you insist on "tuning" it, > try setting "CPUTYPE" in /etc/make.conf. > I don't "insist" at all. I'm just trying to configure & install a custom kernel that doesn't give errors. > Your ACPI errors may not be errors, but rather informational > messages. Per-haps "dmesg -a | grep ACPI"? > If on startup the screen spews out a lot of lines that say "ACPI error" and repetitious "uteval-0309 : method execution failes: and AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE and "psparse-0626: Method parse/execution failed" plus a couple more which don't tell me what the hardware might be... then errors it must be... ;-)
Things run but then.... even Xorg is showing some signs of life... no startx to be found though... -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"