help defining chip

curious_bob · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject: help defining chip

So my laptop is a thinkpad 315d with a pentium mmx 166mhz processor. Which version of gentoo should be installed on it?

ckdake · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 889 Location: Atlanta, GA

It should just be pentium. You can stick "mmx" in your USE variable in /etc/make.conf and I think that should speed things up a tiny bit. What krenel are you planing on using?
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curious_bob · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject:

right now i have x86 installed wiht gentoo-sources. I was just wondering if changing would help speed anything up.

ckdake · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 889 Location: Atlanta, GA

ah, that type of choice. I use mm-sources on all of my machines, they are pretty much the most bleeding edge of whatever the most recent kernel source code is. However, it is the 2.6 kernel and gentoo-sources is the 2.4 kernel for now. Search around here some to see what is required to switch to 2.6 (you'll want to do it eventually anyways..) and decided if you want to know. gentoo-sources is pretty optimized for desktop/laptop everyday use, but there may be something out there that you like more.
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curious_bob · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:56 pm Post subject:

well.. right now I have the gentoo kernel for x86 installed. Would installing the pentium kernel improve anything?

ckdake · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 889 Location: Atlanta, GA

Well, i don't know i know quite what you are talking about. there are different kernel source codes and then options to configure them. gentoo-sources is your source code and inside of the config you tell it what cpu you have. Sticking with gentoo-sources is probably a good idea, just dig around a bit in menuconfig and let it know that you have a pentium.
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