Any Tips for Installing on a Athlon XP system?

snorkel

I have already read not to use the K7/athlon options in the kernel or the modules wont load.
Any other tips to get the max performance out of my Athlon?

Thanks,

Tony

gboyce · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 22 Location: Lynn, MA

snorkel · Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 2:17 pm Post subject: Athlon

Yes,

Nvidia kernel module won't load or any modules that you compile with the kernel.

Recompile with PIII kernal optimizations and then everything works.
Other users have verified this.

Tony

AnimalMachine · Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 2:22 pm Post subject:

Odd ... I'm almost sure my main desktop pc (AMD TB 1.4ghz) uses the Athlon setting in the kernel and loads ALSA and nvidia modules fine (Geforce3). This is with the 2.4.19-gentoo-r5 series kernel - but I've been doing this for a while.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Does more documentation exist on this? Is this a kernel, compiler, Gentoo issue? A list of modules that won't like it? I'm considering building a new K7 system.

mb · Guru Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 355 Location: Hessen | .de

here: athlon smp, gf3 ti200
no problems with gcc3.0.x and gentoo kernel, march=athlon

give it a try...

#mb

grahamdog · n00b Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 10

I use the athlon kernel parameter and I can load all modules fine... even the nvidia driver

AnimalMachine · Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 7:41 pm Post subject:

I should add that I did get some compilation problems with network drivers (like 3c59x.o) back when I first seen the athlon option appear in menuconfig - but things have been okay for quite a while.

Forge · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject:

I've compiled every kernel since 2.2.19 (believe that was it) with the Athlon option set. I've been using Nvidia cards almost the entire time.

No issues whatsoever.

Always confirm word-of-mouth reports before believing them, and always quad-check your results before telling anyone else something, especially advice so broad-reaching.

Guest · Guest

I think what he means is when you go into menuconfig just before you compile your kernel you select Intel, AMD, etc etc as your processor type. I used the Athlon setting and now my gfx card wont load properly, so i think i will switch it up to Intel

Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

metalhedd · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 6:21 pm Post subject:

I use the athlon optimizations in the kernel config as well.. Nvidia drivers and alsa load perfectly. never had a problem.

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 6:01 pm Post subject:

well, i use ATI Rage 128 Gfx card :cry:

and evertime i try to load KDE or just running startx i get an error saying that the video card modules are unresolved.

Jacaranda · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 17

Just an idea, perhaps when your recompiling your vidio drivers for your new kernel (you did, didn't you?), you're using the old headers.
This happened to me on a slack system a little while back.

The fix was passing a SYSINCLUDE=blahblahblah(something like that, the memories a bit hazy) variable to ./config. Shouldn't be hard to work out what to do with a bit of google

Now I don't know how gentoo does this with the ebuild files, but wouldn't it be just a matter of putting that string in the right part of the ebuild??
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