Hey.

I recently completed my first "almost successful" kernel 2.6.9 compile. I've earlier tried with 2.6.10 but somewhere in the process things got messed up, either by my ignorance or by the kernel, I do not know. Most likely due to ignorance since a few things are messed up again.

I've compiled what I believe I need into the kernel, and no modules. I've managed to solve most of the problems, however a few still remains.

From dmesg:
I get several of these acpi related interrupts, what is this all about? Btw, do I need any acpi related when running a desktop rather than a laptop?

From messages:
Anyone who could explain what the above means?

And finally this is written during boot:
There is not such modules, as I compiled them into the kernel. Somewhere else I read that doing so is a no-no, when dealing with alsa, is this so? And if so, why? Oh, I might need to add that sound is working like a charm.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards.

EDIT:
xterm and rxvt stopped working after installing the new kernel. When issueing xterm from a gnome terminal I get this:
Any ideas?

If I were to post my kernel .config, would any care to read through it and comment?

Since im a noob myself I'll give it a try.

Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !

and

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.2[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

what guessing is you probably have more ide options selected like pci-ide in the kernel just ignore it as long as everything works.
apci is just power management stuff i have mine enabled so i can just press the power button to shut my pc down

Jan 20 19:05:13 master kernel: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.

You do't have an initrd but since you compiled your filesystems in the kernel you don't need one so ignore

FATAL: Module snd_mixer_oss not found
FATAL: Module snd_pcm_oss not found

you chose these to be compiled in the kernel but there still in your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf. You might check your /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa is excutable if it is chmod -x it im not sure on this.

xterm: Error 14, errno 21: Is a directory
Reason: spawn: open() failed on /dev/tty

You need to enable devpts in the psuedo filesystems its not enabled by default on 2.6 kernels.

hi

Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe

i think u haven't compiled the suport in ur kenrel for PCI-ide chipset support
do not compile as modules

also if u do not have oss modules then

run
generate-modprobe.conf

this will build ur modprobe.conf w.r.t to ur present kernel modules

regards

I appreciate your replies.

The

Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !

issue was solved by removing some of the selected pci related options, most likely the generic ones. The acpi interrupts solved by removing acpi support. (I had chosen apm as well before, most likely there was a conflict) The xterm and xvrt issue solved by removing Legacy (BSD) PTY support from Device Drivers > Character devices.

The ramdisk and alsa issues are still present, though. If I do a chmod /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa -x, I cannot by no means get sound to work. I do have a initrd, as I need one for the bootsplash.

Oh, well. Choosing sound related stuff as modules rather that compiling into the kernel solved it. Not the solution I prefer, but I've got fed up with the warnings. If anyone has a idea of how to solve this issue when compiling it into the kernel, I'd really appreciate it.

Regards.