Date: 24 Aug 2002 02:03:31 -0700 From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> To: "frank amo" <lxfrank90@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP WITH CUSTOM KERNEL Message-ID: <86r8go7hng.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <F59PDVXLuSbh29cM3or0001d0a3@hotmail.com> References: <F59PDVXLuSbh29cM3or0001d0a3@hotmail.com>
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"frank amo" <lxfrank90@hotmail.com> writes: | 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 That's very strange. I can punctuate willy-nilly with no fear of rejection. Perhaps you could enlighten us on what sort of error messages punctuation in email messages generates for you. | I am considering upgrading to freebsd [4.6.2] because my [4.4] and [4.5] 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 Okay. These are all reasonable goals. Goal Three is sort of at odds with itself, but I think I understand what you mean. | 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 | [...] | | 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 There seems to be some confusion here. FreeBSD basically can support any VGA monitor. I suspect what you're actually interested in is what XFree86 will support; that's a different group, and you'd have to look at http://www.xfree86.org/ for more information. | ISSUE TWO | | In spite of that problem I would like to add the new Xfree86 [4.2.0] 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 "Upstairs"? Since I'm unclear on what driver you're talking about in the first place, it's hard to know what this means. | 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 XFree86 4.2.0 supports the Radeon using the ati driver included with XFree86. http://xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status6.html | 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 I've never heard of this error message. | errors to forward slash dev forward slash console [/dev/console] | I get these permission denied messages to this directory every time I leave | the console idle after I log in as root What permission denied messages? Also, /dev/console is not a directory. | I have to control c out of them or hit enter to get back to the prompt If you mean that error messages are displaying on the console, that's normal behavior. | 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 I'm unclear on what this means. | 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 I have no idea what you're talking about. If you'd like to get better answers, you need to supply better information: exact error messages, what you're doing to cause those error messages, and so on. Also, while I understand you like a hands-on approach, it's also clear that your disregard of the provided documentation is causing you a lot of problems and misunderstandings. You may want to modify your approach a little in that regard. | 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 I don't have enough information even to venture a guess, but I seriously doubt it. | Or is it that using a newer freebsd kernel may have support or patches for my | Athlon CPU This doesn't make any sense. The Athlon CPU doesn't require any patches. It works with FreeBSD "out of the box." | I know very little about computers in general and with UNIX I am not an | ameteur yet In that case, you *definitely* need to get over your aversion of the documentation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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