the default 9.0 kernel comes with a very old version of ACPI -- you
should either go from vanilla (which broke USB in my case) or download a
cooker kernel with newer ACPI. I've had ok luck with 2.4.19-19,
currently on 2.4.20-2 and not happy with it.
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 08:19, Sascha Noyes wrote:
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> Hi
>
> Just recently got a Compaq Presario 700 series laptop, which does things
> entirely by ACPI and not APM. I tried to compile 9.0's kernel but ran into
> trouble.
>
> 1) make xconfig
>
> Here are the things that I changed from the default values:
>
> Processor type and features > Processor Family : from 586 to athlon/duron/k7
>
> Processor type and features > Local APIC support on uniprocessors: from 'yes'
> to 'no'
>
> General Setup > ACPI support > from 'no' to 'yes'
> and all the other ACPI options in General Setup from 'no' to 'yes'
>
>
> 2) make dep
>
> 3) make clean
>
> 4) make bzImage
>
> 5) make modules
>
> 6) make modules_install
>
> This process exits with these last couple of lines:
>
> <snip>
>
> make -C arch/i386/lib modules_install
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/arch/i386/lib'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/arch/i386/lib'
> cd /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkcustom; \
> mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
> if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.19-16mdkcustom;
> fi
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkcustom/kernel/drivers/hotplug/ibmphp.o
> depmod: IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector
>
> </snip>
>
> It must be possible to build the kernel with ACPI, but without APIC as I have
> seen numerous website who suggest doing just that. Is this something specific
> to the mandrake kernel? Maybe I'll try the stock one.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Sascha Noyes
>
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