From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 21 16:53:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C58106566B for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7928FC1D for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KN500HNK52ZMEA0@VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:42:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4A65F298.8030500@videotron.ca> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:53:44 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) To: "illoai@gmail.com" References: <4A65D28E.5030905@videotron.ca> In-reply-to: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: custom amd64 kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:53:44 -0000 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > 2009/7/21 PJ : > >> 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