Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:53:44 -0400 From: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: custom amd64 kernel Message-ID: <4A65F298.8030500@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0907210931k5ecf4e17xe8f688dd7ea0e069@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A65D28E.5030905@videotron.ca> <d7195cff0907210931k5ecf4e17xe8f688dd7ea0e069@mail.gmail.com>
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illoai@gmail.com wrote: > 2009/7/21 PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>: > >> Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I >> have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without >> problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default >> GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine is Turion with some other >> name for the cpu. >> Changing that does not fix things either. >> > > AFIK (IANAMSP) "HAMMER" is the only valid setting for cpu > in your kernel config under amd64. If you insist on "tuning" it, > try setting "CPUTYPE" in /etc/make.conf. > I don't "insist" at all. I'm just trying to configure & install a custom kernel that doesn't give errors. > Your ACPI errors may not be errors, but rather informational > messages. Per-haps "dmesg -a | grep ACPI"? > If on startup the screen spews out a lot of lines that say "ACPI error" and repetitious "uteval-0309 : method execution failes: and AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE and "psparse-0626: Method parse/execution failed" plus a couple more which don't tell me what the hardware might be... then errors it must be... ;-) Things run but then.... even Xorg is showing some signs of life... no startx to be found though... -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php
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