Hi Wolfgang On (11/09/03 14:48), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > > 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/ > > <http://ppckernel.org/tree.php?id=3> > > The following page for a TiBook III definitely helped me a lot for my > Titanium IV: > <http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/> > I didn't copy the advice there literally and varied it a bit: > <http://home.t-online.de/home/520050060325-0001/ppc-benh-kernel/readme> > > Inside the benh 2.4.21-ben2 tree: > README (on top of the tree) > Documentation/Configure.help > > And this book helped me understand the difference between a module and > non-modular device drivers: > > "Running Linux" by Welsh, Dalheimer, Kaufman (O'Reilly), 3.rd edition. > About 12 or 13 pages on Kernel building there. And please have an > extra thorough look at the book if it's another edition than the one > above. Contents might be different then, IIRC ... This is a book I thought about but opted for two others: Linux Administration Handbook and Linux Administration-A Beginners Guide. I'll have a dig through those but it sounds like my Linux Library needs to expand ;) I also got LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell but it is of limited tutorial help more a guide as to what you need to know for certification. > > And in case you get errors while building your kernel (I got several > of them ... :) ... : > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200307/msg00568.html> > > To fix the stuff I simply unset these options in the kernel .config > that I thought were responsible for the build errors I got. I can't > code, so that's all I could do .. > > All in all it took me several weeks for the setting of the config > file: It was the first one I made. As I have a working kernel and I'm running Debian on 3 servers, I'm not in a great hurry, so I guess I'm not going to be any quicker.
> And I'm careful with Kernel Guides floating around the Internet: > <http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/> > : > "I once wrote something called the Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide. If you > are looking for it, stop now. It's old, not updated, very broken, and > by now is almost entirely misleading." Many thanks for all the info Regards Clive
