Thanks to all you guys!
I know I havnt posted a lot recently (been reading more so than posting). But I just wanted to thank you guys (shilo and DaOne plus anyone else thats ever posted advice here on compiling kernels) as I have just compiled my first successful kernel! I just recompiled 2.4.31, mainly just for learning though I guess it does make it more optimized for my system. Right now lsmod is showing this:
Code:
Module Size Used by Tainted: P Anyway, Im just exited that I got it to boot correctly and startx and everything! I thought I would thank all the people that help out on this board cus without youguys I would never have learned this much. BTW: is there anything you guys would recommend to do to make sure everything is running as smooth as it can? Tests or checks or something? Everything seems ok, but I would like to know for sure. |
Congratulations LizardMan! I'm new to Slackware so I'm new to optimizing, so I'm sure I will be giving this a try as well pretty soon. I'd also like to thank everyone who helps out as well, you guys are awesome. Thanks.
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I'm no expert, but I'd run dmesg |less and carefully examine for any error messages or warnings after recompiling the new kernel, and also watch /var/log/messages carefully for anomalies
-Y1 |
I ran dmesg already (no 'less') but now I just ran dmesg|less just to check. Nothing jumps out at me...
hmm... just checked /var/log/messages and did find this little massage near the very end: Code:
Oct 3 05:31:59 wong insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers |
Yeah you're right - not to worry about that one. It just means that the modul you loaded contains a binary package that's not open source, thus "tainting" the opensource Linux OS...
Not to worry, unless you're a die-hard OpenSource enthusiast hating everything closed source :) -Y1 |
Well, I do prefer the idea of open source to proprietary software, but I'll be damned if Im gonna lets my video card go to waste! :p
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