Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:07:48 -0700 From: "frank amo" <lxfrank90@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HELP WITH CUSTOM KERNEL Message-ID: <F59PDVXLuSbh29cM3or0001d0a3@hotmail.com>
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Hello Before I get started I want to let you guys or gals know that I am avoiding puncutating this message because when I punctuate my emails have been returned from many UNIX sites including this one I will attempt to make my messages as clear as possible and will jump down one line for each sentence and a double line for each topic changing paragraph In addition to this poorly written email I prefer for each issue to be treated individually if that is more convenient for you I dont expect and am not rushing anyone to answer every problem immediately I expect every problem to be concentrated one at a time I am emailing you guys for help because I have read some content prefer to do things more hands on Thats how I understand things Reading heavy documentation for an hour becomes a week hopping from link to link until I forget what the original reason was that I was looking for help It would help me to be pointed to the right direction when a straight forward answer may be difficult to at the moment For example if you know a site that you know has existing drivers would really help me alot and I would appreciate it I hope you dont get too confused because I really need your aiding assistance And again I know I dont have easy questions so dont feel rushed to answer everything right away I only wrote alot because I may forget what questions I had later on So you can treat each topic as a separate email from different people Thanks Now Im done with this with this warning TOPIC ONE PARAGRAPH ONE I am considering upgrading to freebsd 4dot6dot2 because my 4dot4 and 4dot5 are giving me a series of issues achieving my goals Before I tell you my actual problems I will introduce my goals GOAL ONE To compile a kernel that will support limited hardware on my computer GOAL TWO Upon successful compilation of this kernel I would like to eliminate as many demons as possible and leave certain sockets open to create my own network services later on as I progress in what Im trying to accomplish GOAL THREE I would like to run an XServer with only one window manager that will allow me to conentrate my resources on both compilation and heavy image rendering and sound support SUMMARY These three goals are what I feel I need to create an multimedia workstation to provide me an environment that I can develop code and render images for mainly game development and testing for unix slash linux network based games TOPIC ONE PARAGRAPH TWO MY HARDWARE SETUP CPU is an AMD Athlon 800mhz MotherBoard is an Epox via chipset MEMORY is 768mhz running at 100mhz bus speed VIDEO is an ATI Radeon 7500 with 64mb of ddr memory Sound is built in but the sound I am not really concerned in a kernel to specifically support my sound device I may get a soundblaster or something later depending on how the sound works for me ISSUE ONE My main concerns are using the drivers that I found on your website and getting them to compile correctly into my kernel I have downloaded the ati radeon drivers from a link through your site the extenstion looks funny and I cant seem to relate them with freebsd and ati radeon support My only guess is either figure out how to use or compile those files or find something more convinient like a script I found for linux radeon support I dont mind untarring and then running make to compile them but they dont even look like they have those options Once I figure that out I am sort of confortable to go to my source directory and create my custom kernel and compile it I just need to know how to work those radoen files so that they give me either a dot o or a dot so extention and them include them in a directory for the kernel to find them during recompilation ISSUE TWO In spite of that problem I would like to add the new Xfree86 4dot2dot0 which I did but startx fails obviously because of the problem upstairs so I am patient with that until I have figured out the ATI Radeon driver issue I may come back for help on that later What I am really curious about is this with the Xfree86config script QUESTION Will my ati radeon 7500 show up in the video card database after I have compiled the driver END OF QUESTION ISSUE THREE This is completely unrelated At least I think I am getting ugly and inhuman error messages such as listed below ERROR MESSAGES microfuntion These are actual functions that make me lose control of the keyboard errors to forward slash dev forward slash console I get these permission denied messages to this directory every time I leave the console idle after I log in as root I have to control c out of them or hit enter to get back to the prompt getty error messages Happen very much along with the dev console messages they also happen when I leave the keyboard idle I have to get back to the prompt the same way I described above healthd minus 14 point some number I get healthd like the messages above but on top of that I get negative numbers that rapidly change They are floating point numbers they always have decimals Its like reading an oscilliscope Now I also have similar issues on my other freebsd machine That machine works fine though and those automatic messages appear but I dont lose control of the terminal so they dont bother me there QUESTIONS Are these problems related to my AMD Athlon running at 800mhz Or is it possible that there may be a mismatch in the bios bus speed etc Or is it that using a newer freebsd kernel may have support or patches for my Athlon CPU END OF QUESTIONS END OF HELP REQUEST As you can see I have some obstacles to conquer before I get my dream machine I know very little about computers in general and with UNIX I am not an ameteur yet I have a freebsd pc running as a nat server and dont remember how I did it but it works and all of my pcs can access the internet through it This is the second box that Im am configuring for freebsd but to do something entirely unlrelated to networking I was actually motivated by SGI on how those machines are setup to perform specific tasks and those tasks are just 3D graphics and media stuff Just to let you know I hate office related stuff I like to expiriment with both creative and scientific apps Thats why I like unix and linux even though they kind of rival each other To me probably cuz Im a newbie I UNIX or UNIX Like are relatives to me and I would take either side before I would ever place any value for the IdiotBuilt MarketInCorporated MicroSucks and its brainless Management Minded LUsers UNIX RULES AS LONG AS INTELLIGENCE EXISTS TO USE IT _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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