which controllers(devices) to disable in kernel?
Hi, I bought a new pc with GIGABYTE GA-K8VT800 VIA K8T800 mother board (has ata, sata, raid) and a SATA IBM HDD and installed FreeBSD 6.0. I'm building a custom kernel and I was wondering which controllers(devices) I need for my new kernel to support my motherboard properly? Is there a way to see which devices my pc uses from the GENERIC kernel? thanks, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which controllers(devices) to disable in kernel?
Perica Veljanovski wrote: I bought a new pc with GIGABYTE GA-K8VT800 VIA K8T800 mother board (has ata, sata, raid) and a SATA IBM HDD and installed FreeBSD 6.0. I'm building a custom kernel and I was wondering which controllers(devices) I need for my new kernel to support my motherboard properly? You can comment out the things you don't need which you know you don't need, and test that kernel and see whether you're happy with it. Is there a way to see which devices my pc uses from the GENERIC kernel? Take a look at dmesg, it will show all of the devices as they are recognized and configured. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which controllers(devices) to disable in kernel?
Perica Veljanovski wrote: Hi, I bought a new pc with GIGABYTE GA-K8VT800 VIA K8T800 mother board (has ata, sata, raid) and a SATA IBM HDD and installed FreeBSD 6.0. I'm building a custom kernel and I was wondering which controllers(devices) I need for my new kernel to support my motherboard properly? Is there a way to see which devices my pc uses from the GENERIC kernel? Don't forget to read NOTES. Some devices are not intuitively obvious. You need SCSI to run a USB mass storage device even if you don't have a SCSI host adapter. dmesg like the other fellow said. There is one caveat. If you have some obscure hardware it may not show in dmesg output because it was never built into GENERIC. For this hardware you might look at the chips on the mainboard or in the hardware manual. You the take the chip's identifier (for lack of a better word) and grep the kernel config files to find the right driver. And oh yeah, you could use these docs: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html But that's less adventurous. Later, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
