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pen
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 Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 11:46 pm Post subject: A couple of kernel and kernel compile questions |
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I am running an AMD Athlon. I actually installed from the i686 ISO image. I unpacked the stage3 file and jumped in at 'Final steps".
I compiled the kernel (my first ever), accidently leaving it as i686. Can't remember if I compiled network support for my Realtek 8139 card as a module in "in-kernel". Anyway it booted and it ran, so I installed KDE3 and a couple of other things.
Today I decided to do another kernel build, this time for Athlon. I selected to have the 8139 support as a module. The compile appeared to run fine - or at least I think it did, the screen scrolls so fast who can tell. When I booted it the 8139too.o driver failed to load with an unresolved "_mmx_...." message.
Does the "_mmx_..." imply that it was looking to link to an Intel specific address point that was no long in my "Athlon" kernel? I got networking back by recompiling with direct 8139 support and am typing this message on the box.
Another question. When you build a kernel will it compile the driver modules as well ro do you have to do that specifically?
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tomte
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 08 May 2002
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 11:54 pm Post subject: Re: A couple of kernel and kernel compile questions |
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| pen wrote: | I am running an AMD Athlon. I actually installed from the i686 ISO image. I unpacked the stage3 file and jumped in at 'Final steps".
I compiled the kernel (my first ever), accidently leaving it as i686. Can't remember if I compiled network support for my Realtek 8139 card as a module in "in-kernel". Anyway it booted and it ran, so I installed KDE3 and a couple of other things.
Today I decided to do another kernel build, this time for Athlon. I selected to have the 8139 support as a module. The compile appeared to run fine - or at least I think it did, the screen scrolls so fast who can tell. When I booted it the 8139too.o driver failed to load with an unresolved "_mmx_...." message.
Does the "_mmx_..." imply that it was looking to link to an Intel specific address point that was no long in my "Athlon" kernel? I got networking back by recompiling with direct 8139 support and am typing this message on the box.
Another question. When you build a kernel will it compile the driver modules as well ro do you have to do that specifically?
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in /usr/src/linux do an
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cp .config ..
make mrproper
mv ../.config .
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before you start with make menuconfig etc. to get really rid of old stuff.
and yes, you have do build the modules (well not in any case /need/ to, but in any case useful  if you build a new kernel.
and don't forget to reemerge alsa-driver, nvidia-kernel, lm_sensors and/or any other package that builds kernel-modules that you have installed (if you don't have this stuff patched into the kernel, that is)
regards,
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jay
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pen: you didn't search the forum, didn't you ? 
There is a complete howto in the tips & Tricks section:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3913
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