At 04.26 18/09/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Paolo Basaglia wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently succesfully installed Linux SuSE 6.2 on my PC.
>>
>> I have the following hardware:
>>
>> Mainboard ASUS P2B-D
>> 2 CPUs Pentium III 500
>> SCSI Cards: Adaptec 2940 U2W + Adaptec 2910c for Microtek E6 scanner
>> No IDE peripherial, but just SCSI.
>> Matrox Millenium G400 Max
>> Stylus Color 900 printer
>
>Killer system, dude. Spring for Quantum Atlas 10K drives!
Thanks!
:-) Sorry I don't have the Atlas IV, but just one old Atlas II ultra wide and
2 Viking Ultra 2 Wide.
>> Since I have a dual processor configuration I tried to recompile the
>> kernel for my PC adding SMP and 686 optimization using the menuconfig
>> utility.
>> I exactly followed the direction indicated in the SuSE database about
>> recompiling for SMP and I changed the module location directory as
>> suggested before recompiling, as advised, to avoid confusion between
>> SMP and non SMP modules. I also loaded the previous .config (non SMP)
>> menuconfig options I order to have the same configuration, apart SMP
>> and 686 optimization.
>
>I would not bother with leaving a non-smp setup around unless you're
>debugging.
The problem is the loosing of the printing capabilities after installing
the new kernel, even if I come back reinstalling the old kernel ... I need
to reinstall all the system from the beginning to have printing
capabilities back and this is incredible!
>> Howevwer, even after several tries, I always have the same problems:
>>
>> 1 - I loose low level (and obviouly high level) printing capabilities
>> ...
>> cat <file.txt> > /dev/lp0
>> echo hello > /dev/lp0
>> do not give any printing result!
>> No modification in the menuconfig options about printer give a
>> result!
>>
>> 2 - At the restart I get several errors about:
>> Char-Major-4 module not present!
>> No modification in the menuconfig options give a result!
>>
>> 3 - At the boot the FAT partition mounting give an error about the
>> ISO85... western european module support (no present!) ... I can
>> recover it just by manually adding the support in menuconfig, but
>> it was not present in the previous kernel .config, so why ??? ...
>>
>> Do you have any suggestion about this trouble ????
>
>These are all config problems. I too was bit by the 1&2 when I first tried
>both serial and parallel modules. There was an IRQ conflict, and I could
>work around it, but it was easier to just leave serial support in the
>kernel. For 3 you need to enable 2 standard language options. I'm sure Suse
>has the source code package for their kernel build, from which you can obtain
>a .config file.
I used the .config from the SuSe kernel build, and I just modified the SMP
and 686 setting, but the problems remain.
I solved problem 2 and 3. I solved the problem 2 by enabling the module
serial.o in the make config option in order to buil it after recompilig
module for the SMP. I solved problem 3 by adding the ISO85... support to
the kernel.
But the biggest problem remain the loosing of printing capabilities which
remain also after the replacement of the old kernel and modules ... just
reinstalling the system from the beginning solve the problem and this is
incredible!!!
Any other idea ???
Thanks.
Bye ... Paolo
My home page is: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/1453/
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