Hi, I use
P4 1.72GHz
512MB DDR
40GB maxtor
nVidia GeForce 4 MX 460
PCI creative labs 5.1


i just installed Slackware 10.1 it comes with 2.4.29 kernel, and i wounder what is difffernece between 2.4.29 and 2.6.13 the latest wan. I also compiled 2.6.13 kernel but i couldn't configure it like the 2.4.29 sound didn't work, no automount optins and stuff. and when i boot i don't see a litle pinguin at a left top of monitor like in 2.4.29 kernel. How can i install that and does anyone have a .config file so i could use it and just exclude the components that i don't need in kernel 2.6.13.
thank you.

for creative recompile the kernel

its within -->Device Drivers-->Sound-->Open SoundSystem--> and

tick as M the Creative SBLive!(EMU10K1)

it works fine for me



within the kernel -->Device Drivers-->Graphics support-->Logo configuration

tick all options

im not sure for the logo bit but works for me as it is


Hope this may help

do a #lspci
get the name of ur devices
make this as u desire, her e my goes
# Logo configuration
#
CONFIG_LOGO=y
# CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO is not set
# CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y
# CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT is not set

here is my lspci part of sound
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 A udio Controller (rev 02)
so my config looks
CONFIG_SOUND=m

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=m
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
# CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
# CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set
# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set
also configure support for device mine is intel(pci) so i did

#
# PCI devices
#
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=m

# Open Sound System
#
CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=m

ok that works, thanks
what is with other stuff ???
and why my computer won't shutdown completly, hd is off and i have black screen with text and i have to turn it of manualy ???
can that be fixed??
P.S.
how to mount usb memory stick ???? what shuld I add to my fstab??
do i have to plug stick before linux boots or it can be done like on win XP ??

You need to enable APM or ACPI support in the kernel, depending on your motherboard.

the USB devices are found under

/dev/sda1 ........ 10 ...

if i am right about usb stick - as i have taken it as an flash disk.
you can mount it

mount /dev/sda1 /dir/location - for the first dev - it dosent matter in which port you have
plugged in the device - it will be found under - sda1 - if there is no other usb active.

one more thing - usb dont need to be plugged in before.
You can plug it in during the run time. it will be found.

i dont use any entry in my fstab file for usb disks.
i just mount it :

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/Flash_Disk

if u enabled hotplug (that will show when the machine boots), soon u put th e usb it will flsh
and u could do a $dmesg and u can c the usb is mounted in /dev/sda1 kind of thing
try do a dmesg most probably it will b in sda1
there were tyhreads for mounting th e usb with user permision etc.. do a serch in our forum plz
u have to enable apm, build as modules hi so tht u could manually enable if u needed

hmm i pluged in my usb stick and do that comand
here it is:

Linux version 2.4.29 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.3.4) #6 Thu Jan 20 16:30:37 PST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff30000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff30000 - 000000001ff40000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff40000 - 000000001fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff7c0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 130864
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126768 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Slackware ro root=307
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1716.997 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3420.97 BogoMIPS
Memory: 514588k/523456k available (1831k kernel code, 8480k reserved, 607k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3227] at 00:11.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe080d000, size 1536k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:f310
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:0f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03ad460, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=4866/255/63, UDMA(133)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 1958.800 MB/sec
32regs : 1240.400 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 2222.400 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 1997.200 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1952.400 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (2222.400 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Adding Swap: 329292k swap-space (priority -1)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3168), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xe400, 00:11:2f:9b:25:82, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 01e1 Link 0000.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE]
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered


I don't see sad1 anywhere and still can't mount usb stick ???

hello there,
one more thing you should take care of...
since you had 2.4.x kernel so which "config" file are you using for kernel compilation???
insert the 2nd cd of your slackware distro and then ........"i'm giving the path"
file:/mnt/cdrom/testing/source/linux-2.6.x/config-2.6.7

use this config file

regards

a better way to fing you hardware from the output of the << dmesg >> is

dmesg | grep sda

that will give you the details for any thing on sda

have u enabled in kernel,
in general setup Support for hot-pluggable devices (HOTPLUG) is there, enable it, i think

support for usb devices are neeeded to b enabled tehre is a seperate section for that

i cant help much more , but try enabling hotplug and usb supports
USB Mass Storage support (USB_STORAGE)

usb controler support
my board is intel so i also enabled UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support (USB_UHCI_HCD
go through usb thing and hotplug things once more , and till u didnt got answer then sent this post to moderator ;D