Where in the kernel config is the driver for my chipset?

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

lspci

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject:

omnicloud,

Its here, in make menuconfig

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

for some reason when I was looking for it there, it wasn't showing up. This is for the 2.6 kernel right?

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

oh wait, never mind. I didn't know it was under PCI IDE devices.

Mroofka · Guru Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 369 Location: Poland

I find dificoulty in deciding which driver is dedicated to my hardware. I have the mainboard for PIII with i810 chipset. I have compiled into kernel few diferent drivers but I belive that I can resign from some of them
Which should I use?
lspci:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject:

Mroofka,

Navigate to the same menu. Your option is Intel PIIXn chipsets support
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Jake_L · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: So Cal

It appears that I have the same setting as omnicloud on my Shuttle SK43G box.

output of lspci:

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

did you remember to mount /boot before copying the new kernel over? That causes a lot of problems for me so I just set it to auto mount.

ekutay · l33t Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Berlin

It is actually not a bad idea to leave the boot partition umounted to safe this boot critical stuff from harm caused by an unclean shutdown.

Use genkernel, dolilo or something like this to handle the annoying boot for you.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject:

ekutay,

The contents of /boot are not that critical. There are copies of everything except grub.conf elsewhere on the install, so its one of the easier partitions to recreate. In any case, you always have your validated backups - don't you ?
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Jake_L · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: So Cal

hmm... I think that's the culprit. I was following the manual so carefully that the files are prob. in the wrong area. If someone can let me know what I did wrong, that'd be great! Here's some output that should be informative:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject:

Jake_L,

Your /boot is /dev/hda1. Its fstab entry contains the noauto option, so it is not mounted by the system at startup.
When you wish to install a new kernel, you must mount /boot by hand. The command

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Jake_L · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: So Cal

Thanks so much! That was the problem. I know I'll never forget to do that again! I'm now receiving this:

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

run hdparm -tT /dev/hda so we can see the new speeds.

Also, when opening a folder with more than, say 400-500 items, you may notice lag as it's reading the directory contents.

Jake_L · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: So Cal

Yeah, the directories I tested only had a few items in them, which is why it baffled me so.

Here's a few tries of hdparm:

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

It seems your speed has gone to an acceptable rate. But remember that those are timed buffer reads, aka burst, it is the rate of speed that data can be transfered from the disk buffer. Real speed will still be noticably lower than that because we don't read out of he buffer all the time.