Having setup BuC5.2.7 under a VM and gotten it all setup I went to run it on my production machine (an old ASUS mobo with Semperon 3400+ CPU) and came up missing some more drivers.
Of particular urgency is for me is the 'forcedeth' drive (/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia), since this is the netcard built into the mobo. In my diagnosing this absence I ran 'lspci -k' and got an interesting comparison between the drivers included in (and some used by me) in BuC 5.1.5, and the current 5.2.7. In my case I no longer had 'k8temp' driver (for CPU temp monitoring). Also absent were 'i2c-nforce2' (SMbus stuff, maybe temp/fanspeed sensor related) and 'pcieport' (which I couldn't locate within the modules of 5.1.5, but is tagged in lspci as 'PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)'). When I did a more detailed comparison of drivers of 515 versus 527, as a quick & dirty I counted 200 files that were in 515 but weren't in 527 (coming to 4.1MB). If there's a willingness to restore some or all of the drivers that used to be in 515, I'd point to the ones found in: - /kernel/drivers/acpi/* (pwr mgmt?) - /kernel/drivers/i2c/* (temps sensors, etc) - /kernel/drivers/hwmon/* (temps sensors, etc) - /kernel/drivers/cpufreq/* (cpu throttling?) - /kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/* (esp 'atheros' & 'broadcom') - /kernel/fs/ext2/* (ext2 driver?!?!) - /kernel/fs/ext3/* (ext3 driver?!?!) - /kernel/drivers/usb/usb-common (required by other drivers?!) as key candidates, in addition to my current need for 'forcedeth'. (Hopefully it'll be under the 5.2 series? : ) Cheers & thanks again for LEAF - I guess I'm one of the few remaining who use it on old repurposed PC's! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
