Kernel recompiling

quaaack · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

I've installed Gentoo and GNOME and even nVidia drivers and many things to work well, however, there are two things I need to correct in the kernel that I made, one being ntfs support (dual boot) and second being alsa (I didn't manage to get sound to work).

I noticed that there are some things that require to be recompiled after you recompile a kernel, such as nVidia drivers.

I'm wondering if there's something I should watch out for if I recompile a kernel (such as recompiling certain packages or similar).

Thanks

shaumux · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 1013 Location: Hamburg

Your case is similar to kernel upgrade, i believe you can safely follow the official kernel upgrade guide
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

See wiki for more detailed info, especially for compiling in ALSA.

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:01 am Post subject:

Maybe you could post your lspci and we will have you to setup your sound

quaaack · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

Ok sure. I tried getting alsa running by myself but I got "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device"

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 11)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
02:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 0a)
02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)

I think that I need emu10k1

edit - Also - in the kernel I enabled NTFS support as a module (like in the guide), but when I tried mounting it it didn't know what ntfs was.

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Yes, emu10k1.

For NTFS, emerge sys-fs/ntfs3g.

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:21 am Post subject:

Do you need to write NTFS or just to read it.

If so, you need to enable the NTFS READ inside the kernel.