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Lord Sauron wrote: |
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>On 3/26/06, Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>I had this set to be compiled into the kernel. Should that present |
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>any problems? |
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Most things do not matter. You can do either way. There are some |
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things that I have seen that must be modules and some things, like file |
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systems, that must be compiled in. Example on the last one, I use |
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reiserfs for my files system including root. If I have reiserfs as a |
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module, the kernel will not be able to read my root partition to boot |
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up. For that reason, I have to compile it in so it can read the root |
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partition. IF I had say a data partition that used XFS, I could make |
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that a module if I wanted to. The system will boot up and then load all |
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the modules so it can read the other file systems. |
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One reason some use modules is that you can update them or do bug fixes |
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without rebooting. You just unload the module, update it, then reload |
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it again. This is usually something that folks like me and you do not |
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have to worry about though. |
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>>> <*> Button |
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>>> < > Video |
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>>> < > Generic Hotkey (EXPERIMENTAL) |
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>>> < > Fan |
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>>> < > Processor |
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>>> < > ASUS/Medion Laptop Extras |
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>>> < > IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras |
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>I had this enabled (compiled into kernel) since I do own a IBM X40. |
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>>> < > Toshiba Laptop Extras |
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>>> (0) Disable ACPI for systems before Jan 1st this year (NEW) |
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>What on earth is this? I read the descriptor, but it didn't help me much... |
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>From what I have read, some systems do not support ACPI at all. They |
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will not work, or maybe they blow up or something. I assume that there |
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is some way for it to know when it was made and it will disable it if it |
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is before that date. I'm not really sure either. |
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>>As it says up at the top, you can press "y" to compile it in, press "m" |
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>>to have it as a module or press "n" to leave it out. You can also swith |
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>>through them with the space bar. There are a lot of gurus here that may |
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>>disagree with this, but I have no modules for my kernel unless I have to |
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>>have it for some reason. I did have modules for my temp sensors but that |
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>>was so I could reset it without rebooting. I'm sure someone will come in |
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>>with 100 reasons to have modules and some others will have reasons not |
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>>too. I say do it like you need to and whatever makes you and the system |
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>I'm just going to try compiling stuff into the kernel first, before I |
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>try and tinker. |
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Save that info, you may need it. The first kernel I made would boot up |
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but some things, USB and a couple other things didn't work, so I made a |
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new one. The new one wouldn't work at all. Something I changed didn't |
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work right at all. Since I saved the old one, I just rebooted and used |
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it. Otherwise, I would have had to boot the CD and chrooted in to fix |
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it. That's a good tip to keep in mind. |
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>>When you make a new kernel, don't remove the old one. Since it does boot |
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>>up, you can use it to fall back on in case your new one fails for some |
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>>reason. Just give it a different name from the old one when you copy it |
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>>over. I do mine names like this: |
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>So, I should rename one of my kernels and try and see which one is |
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>which? Or am I still off the mark? It didn't look like it compiled |
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>the kernel... I think it should have taken longer, but it didn't. I |
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>may be missing a step. : / |
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Most likely the first one is named bzImage and that is fine. Just name |
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you new one something different. You can name it bzImage-1 if you |
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want. I put the kernel version on the end so I know what version it is. |
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>>>root@smoker / # ls -al /boot/bzI* |
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>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2196613 Sep 18 2005 /boot/bzImage-gen-2.6.12-1 |
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>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2224482 Dec 20 20:31 /boot/bzImage-gen-2.6.14-4 |
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>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2225130 Dec 27 04:50 /boot/bzImage-gen-2.6.14-5 |
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>>I currently have three kernels that I can boot if one of them gets |
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>>corrupted or something. The last digit is like a version number for me. |
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>>If you can't boot the old one, you can hit "e" twice when grub comes up |
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>>and then use the arrow keys to edit which kernel you want to boot. It |
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>>can save you a lot of headaches too. After you edit that, you just hit |
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>>return and then hit the "b" key to boot it up. If it gives you a grub |
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>>error, just hit the escape (Esc) key to go back and try again. |
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>Just a question: if the support is made to be as a module (M, instead |
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>of *) does that mean that you have to add something like "doacpi" to |
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That means you have to add it to the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 |
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file for it to load the module when it boots. This is what my file |
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looks like: |
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> nvidia |
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> hwmon_vid |
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> i2c_isa |
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> w83627hf |
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I guess I do still have my sensors as modules. Anyway, nvidia has to be |
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a module. You will see them when they load up. |
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>>Hope this helps. I'm about to take some meds and may not be around for a |
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>>while. Plenty of others here to help though. |
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>Ah, you take crazy-pills too. I've already taken mine, so I'm a |
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>couple minutes away from sleep. Thanks for your help. By the end of |
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>this I'll hopefully be guru enough to help someone else out in turn : |
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Not crazy pills. I'm disabled from a skin disorder and when it starts |
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to itch like crazy I can take meds for it. It's just that the meds make |
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me sleepy. When I get up, I have a really dry mouth and I want to eat |
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everything in the house, even some foods I don't like. I took my meds, |
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just one pill though, so parden me while I go eat. O_O |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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