On (10/09/03 21:49), Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:56, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Sometime ago I managed to recompile a 2.4.18 SMP kernel and most things > > work OK but a few issues remain: > > > > Poor sound quality > > Lack of video > > I've just added memory but only 512Mb are recognised > > Can't seem to read CD's or Zip files > > > > I've recently tried to recompile to include HighMem and rectify some of > > the above issues but the new kernels I've tried won't startx and > > recompiling again gives errors after I've made changes. I've lost my > > original config file and so have to start again from scratch. I'm still > > using the original SMP kernel. > > > > Are there any docs that give an idiots guide to config selection for > > this machine? > > Get my tree and make pmac_config > > Ben.
Thanks Ben It took a bit of detective work but when I found the page: http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ your instructions on building the tree are pretty clear ;) As a result I ran out of space in /usr (down to 19Mb out of 1.5Gb) but I've since run deborphan and released 167Mb in total. So on to actually recompiling the kernel, I shall plough through the documentation to find out how but if I get stuck, I hope you won't mind me coming back for help :) Regards Clive
