Paolo Basaglia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently succesfully installed Linux SuSE 6.2 on my PC.
>
> I have the following hardware:
>
> Mainboard ASUS P2B-D
> 2 CPUs Pentium III 500
> SCSI Cards: Adaptec 2940 U2W + Adaptec 2910c for Microtek E6 scanner
> No IDE peripherial, but just SCSI.
> Matrox Millenium G400 Max
> Stylus Color 900 printer
Killer system, dude. Spring for Quantum Atlas 10K drives!
> Since I have a dual processor configuration I tried to recompile the
> kernel for my PC adding SMP and 686 optimization using the menuconfig
> utility.
> I exactly followed the direction indicated in the SuSE database about
> recompiling for SMP and I changed the module location directory as
> suggested before recompiling, as advised, to avoid confusion between
> SMP and non SMP modules. I also loaded the previous .config (non SMP)
> menuconfig options I order to have the same configuration, apart SMP
> and 686 optimization.
I would not bother with leaving a non-smp setup around unless you're
debugging.
> Howevwer, even after several tries, I always have the same problems:
>
> 1 - I loose low level (and obviouly high level) printing capabilities
> ...
> cat <file.txt> > /dev/lp0
> echo hello > /dev/lp0
> do not give any printing result!
> No modification in the menuconfig options about printer give a
> result!
>
> 2 - At the restart I get several errors about:
> Char-Major-4 module not present!
> No modification in the menuconfig options give a result!
>
> 3 - At the boot the FAT partition mounting give an error about the
> ISO85... western european module support (no present!) ... I can
> recover it just by manually adding the support in menuconfig, but
> it was not present in the previous kernel .config, so why ??? ...
>
> Do you have any suggestion about this trouble ????
These are all config problems. I too was bit by the 1&2 when I first tried
both serial and parallel modules. There was an IRQ conflict, and I could
work around it, but it was easier to just leave serial support in the
kernel. For 3 you need to enable 2 standard language options. I'm sure Suse
has the source code package for their kernel build, from which you can obtain
a .config file.
>
>
> Apart the Matrox G400 support, if I don't have a stable solution I am
> considering to switch to RadHat 6.0 since they add SMP 686 precompiled
> tested kernel to their distribution ... why don't SuSE put SMP 686
> tested kernels at least available for download on SuSE site ????
>
> Please, help me !!!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Greatings
> Bye ... Paolo
>
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