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i have become unsatisfied with the performance of the bare.i kernel that is installed by default in slackware 11 and want to compile one for my computer, as i never have. i have a P4 2.8Ghz HT cpu. basically the only thing i want is smp support.

this is what i have done (all as root from terminal window):

- downloaded full linux source (linux-2.6.20.2.tar)
- extracted to /usr/src
- copied default slackware 11 .config (/usr/src/linux/.config) to my new source tree
- ran 'make menuconfig'
------ used 'load alternate configuration file' to load the default .config that i copied to current directory
------ went through the menus and selected afew options i wanted. namely processor type, among afew others
- ran 'make'
- ran 'make modules_install'
- ran 'cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.20.2'
- ran 'cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20.2'
- edited /etc/lilo.conf to include the last entry (shown later)
- ran 'lilo'
- ran 'reboot'

after i reboot and select the new lilo entry i have made, it says 'BIOS check successful', as it does with my initial lilo entry, then the screen flashes (as normally does with other linux lilo entry), then the screen stays blank. it seems to be loading still, just not displaying.

i have searched around and it seemed that people have forgot to configure vesa or framebuffer as built-in.
following is some relevant output.

lspci

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2)

02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)

02:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value

/etc/lilo.conf

Code:

# LILO configuration file

# generated by 'liloconfig'

#

# Start LILO global section

boot = /dev/hda2

message = /boot/boot_message.txt

prompt

timeout = 1200

# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:

change-rules

  reset

# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256

vga = 773

# End LILO global section

# Windows bootable partition config begins

other = /dev/hda1

  label = Windows

  table = /dev/hda

# Windows bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins

image = /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.33.3

  root = /dev/hda2

  label = Linux

  read-only

# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux26 begins

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20.2

  root = /dev/hda2

  label = Linux26

  read-only

# Linux26 ends

portions from /usr/src/linux-2.6.20.2/.config

Code:

#

# Automatically generated make config: don't edit

# Linux kernel version: 2.6.20.2

# Sun Mar 11 19:51:30 2007



# ...



#

# Character devices

#

CONFIG_VT=y

CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y

CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y



#...



#

# Graphics support

#

CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y

CONFIG_FB=y

CONFIG_FB_DDC=m

CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y

CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y

CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y

# CONFIG_FB_MACMODES is not set

# CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set

CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y

CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y

# CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is not set

CONFIG_FB_PM2=m

# CONFIG_FB_PM2_FIFO_DISCONNECT is not set

CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000=m

# CONFIG_FB_ARC is not set

# CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set

# CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set

CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y

CONFIG_FB_VESA=y

CONFIG_FB_HGA=m



#...



#

# Console display driver support

#

CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y

# CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK is not set

CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y

# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set

CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y

CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m

# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION is not set

# CONFIG_FONTS is not set

CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y

CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

i really dont know what parameters i should be looking at here. if you want me to post a specific one or the entire file, please let me know.

thanks for your time.