smp

littleneutral1 · 12-09-2004, 09:43 AM

I'm new to linux and would greatly appciate any help or information about the best way to get SMP working on the sarge testing release. I'm running 2.4.27

thanks

sigsegv · 12-09-2004, 10:33 AM

Judging by the "2.4.27-1-686-smp" in your distro list, you already have it.

If you do a dmesg | grep CPU you should see something like this:

Code:

CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 04
CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 04

littleneutral1 · 12-10-2004, 05:07 AM

Sorry, that’s a bit out of date... I initially used a SMP kernel from backports.org, but when i came to install my graphics card an error generated telling me that I the compiler that I was trying to compile me graphics driver with was gcc 3.3 and the kernel was compiled using gcc 2.95.

I was wondering if there was another way to get a SMP active kernel.

hezaplaya · 12-10-2004, 05:33 AM

You are going to have to compile your own kernel. Also what graphics card do you have?

littleneutral1 · 12-10-2004, 05:51 AM

Video Adapter
Model : NVIDIA Quadro PCI-E Series
Chipset : Quadro NVS 280 PCI-E
RAMDAC : Integrated RAMDAC
Video BIOS : Version 4.34.20.79.08
VGA Compatible : No
Total Memory : 64MB (60MB Video) (128MB AGP)
Texture Memory : 191MB
Supports DIME Texturing : Yes

sigsegv · 12-10-2004, 07:45 AM

You can either compile your own or grab a SMP capable kernel with apt.

littleneutral1 · 12-10-2004, 08:54 AM

I got the kernel from

http://packages.debian.org/kernel-im...4.27-1-686-smp

and installed it using kpackage... pretty stright forward really!