cfk wrote:
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>On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:26, Holly Bostick wrote:
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>>cfk schreef:
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>Dear Holly:
> What I did was to take the default 'genkernel' compilation for Gentoo a
>couple of days ago. I'm not familiar enough with the distribution to go
>further then that yet.
>
> So, that begs the question of where the module.ko file *might* be. Should
>genkernel have created an agpgart module somewhere
>under /lib/modules/kernel/2.6.11-gentoo-r8/drivers?
>
> I havent found anything that looks promising.
>
> I guess I was assuming that 'genkernel' would get me far enough to let the X
>window system work, but I guess I must be wrong here.
>
>Charles
>
>
Hi,
Think it's a bad idea to use the default kernel-config from the
install-CD, because it includes too many features, modules in order to
boot/work on quite every system out there, the kernel will be too big
with many unused things and eventually w/o some things which you need.
To get a working X i booted from Knoppix-CD and just copied it's config
to use it later, no acceleration but it's working. Later you could
profile you kernel (read the help items in it).
First time it took me 1-2 hours just to config my first kernel, even
after that there were some omissions but not major ones, even now my
config is evolving. Have agpgart and sis-agp and my kernel-config to get
3D (nvidia).
Having active 3D in a generic-config is very rare IMHO, the install CD
is just to get you going.
HTH. Rumen
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