Early this year I built my first x86-64 (B)LFS. I've just finished using the same scripts, same sources, to build it again, i686 this time. Both are on my i7 box. My goal was to make the two as "identical" as possible. So I used the customized kernel configuration from the x86-64 to build the kernel for i686, just not a 64-bit kernel and 4GB RAM limit not 64GB. I did drop some NIC extraneous drivers, but didn't change much else IIRC.
1) The box has an Nvidia video card. With the x86-64, there was no problem, X came up. With the i686 it doesn't. /var/log/Xorg.0.log says it's defaulting to Radeon! I've checked everywhere I can think of, diffing wherever possible, and I don't see where the Radeon is coming in! Sure, I could add a "Device.conf" file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, but I want to understand where this is coming from. I'm superstitious about preempting a workaround in place of understanding! Any ideas? TIA 2) With this new system occasionally I'm picking up CPU/task stalls detected blasting onto the console log. I've never seen that with other systems on the box. So unless it's a sudden HW glitchiness, I'm suspecting it must be something in my kernel definition, but I don't know what. Is there a build parameter related to that (scheduling?) I should've changed? TIA,a -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
