[gentoo-user] how to extract driver info from genkernel
Hello, This will probably sound simplistic to most... I'm setting up an older Dell PC, and I used genkernel to get it up and running, but how do I figure out which drivers I actually need without knowing for sure which hardware I have in the machine? Genkernel loads a lot of drivers, and the kernel takes a very long time to compile - I understand why, and I'm not complaining about that. But suppose I now wanted to set up the X server, and I don't know which graphics driver I need to choose. Or, suppose I wanted to compile the kernel myself, and I don't really know which drivers I *must* select (since I don't know which chips the machine has). Does anyone have any tips on this? Many thanks, Denis
Re: [gentoo-user] how to extract driver info from genkernel
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:08, Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This will probably sound simplistic to most... I'm setting up an older Dell PC, and I used genkernel to get it up and running, but how do I figure out which drivers I actually need without knowing for sure which hardware I have in the machine? Genkernel loads a lot of drivers, and the kernel takes a very long time to compile - I understand why, and I'm not complaining about that. But suppose I now wanted to set up the X server, and I don't know which graphics driver I need to choose. Or, suppose I wanted to compile the kernel myself, and I don't really know which drivers I *must* select (since I don't know which chips the machine has). Does anyone have any tips on this? You can use the lspci command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm not mistaken) to get your system hardware information. If you use it with the -v flag it will tell you the driver the kernel is using for it. -- Daniel da Veiga
Re: [gentoo-user] how to extract driver info from genkernel
You can use the lspci command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm not mistaken) to get your system hardware information. Just like magic :-) Thank you so much! Denis
