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From: barnabyh on 26 Feb 2010 08:33

Hi People,

I'm having a small problem with compiling my own kernel 2.6.32.9 on
Slackware 13.
Took the .config from current for 2.6.32.7 and changed a few things,
like optimizing for Athlon64 instaed of generic and adding support for
some wireless chips.
I'm by no means a master of kernel recompile, having only done this a
few times with varying degrees of success (never fully).
It works quite beautifully and even booted up and is running now, sound
is there, everyhthing seems alright except when trying to play an
accelerated game (Hexen 2) sound and video get really slow and choppy,
and it takes ages to load up.

Any ideas?

Thank you.


Barnabyh
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From: Dan C on 26 Feb 2010 13:46
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:33:05 +0000, barnabyh wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> I'm having a small problem with compiling my own kernel 2.6.32.9 on
> Slackware 13.
> Took the .config from current for 2.6.32.7 and changed a few things,
> like optimizing for Athlon64 instaed of generic and adding support for
> some wireless chips.
> I'm by no means a master of kernel recompile, having only done this a
> few times with varying degrees of success (never fully). It works quite
> beautifully and even booted up and is running now, sound is there,
> everyhthing seems alright except when trying to play an accelerated game
> (Hexen 2) sound and video get really slow and choppy, and it takes ages
> to load up.
>
> Any ideas?

Assuming you had an accelerated video driver (such as Nvidia) installed
prior to the new kernel (you must have such a thing for games like that
to perform properly)..., you will need to reinstall that video driver
after compiling/installing any new kernel.


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From: barnabyh on 26 Feb 2010 18:40
* Dan C <youmustbejoking(a)lan.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:33:05 +0000, barnabyh wrote:
>
>> Hi People,
>>
>> I'm having a small problem with compiling my own kernel 2.6.32.9 on
>> Slackware 13.
>> Took the .config from current for 2.6.32.7 and changed a few things,
>> like optimizing for Athlon64 instaed of generic and adding support for
>> some wireless chips.
>> I'm by no means a master of kernel recompile, having only done this a
>> few times with varying degrees of success (never fully). It works quite
>> beautifully and even booted up and is running now, sound is there,
>> everyhthing seems alright except when trying to play an accelerated game
>> (Hexen 2) sound and video get really slow and choppy, and it takes ages
>> to load up.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Assuming you had an accelerated video driver (such as Nvidia) installed
> prior to the new kernel (you must have such a thing for games like that
> to perform properly)..., you will need to reinstall that video driver
> after compiling/installing any new kernel.
>
>

Thanks for that. I have a Radeon 9800 Pro which until now was fine with
radeon driver in Xorg.
Everything from OpenArena to Glest to the above. It worked with
2.6.29.6 and when upgraded to 2.6.30.5 without any further steps or prop
drivers.
So I'm wondering what's different with this kernel.

The one thing I can think of is the normally Slackware supplied
firmware.

Barnabyh
--
The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in
everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants.
NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants.
(Slashdot, Monday March 28 2005, Gnome Removed From Slackware.)
From: Chris Sorenson on 28 Feb 2010 16:17
barnabyh wrote:
> * Dan C <youmustbejoking(a)lan.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:33:05 +0000, barnabyh wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi People,
>>>
>>>I'm having a small problem with compiling my own kernel 2.6.32.9 on
>>>Slackware 13.
>>>Took the .config from current for 2.6.32.7 and changed a few things,
>>>like optimizing for Athlon64 instaed of generic and adding support for
>>>some wireless chips.
>>>I'm by no means a master of kernel recompile, having only done this a
>>>few times with varying degrees of success (never fully). It works quite
>>>beautifully and even booted up and is running now, sound is there,
>>>everyhthing seems alright except when trying to play an accelerated game
>>>(Hexen 2) sound and video get really slow and choppy, and it takes ages
>>>to load up.
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Assuming you had an accelerated video driver (such as Nvidia) installed
>>prior to the new kernel (you must have such a thing for games like that
>>to perform properly)..., you will need to reinstall that video driver
>>after compiling/installing any new kernel.
>>
>>
>
>
> Thanks for that. I have a Radeon 9800 Pro which until now was fine with
> radeon driver in Xorg.
> Everything from OpenArena to Glest to the above. It worked with
> 2.6.29.6 and when upgraded to 2.6.30.5 without any further steps or prop
> drivers.
> So I'm wondering what's different with this kernel.
>
> The one thing I can think of is the normally Slackware supplied
> firmware.
>

Your sound and video need firmware?! :o

Slackware's .config compiles everything but the kitchen sink and it's
all into modules. Do a make mrproper and build your own config from
scratch. Do lsmod to find out what modules your machine currently has
loaded, and lspci to see if your hardware really agrees with those.
Only compile support for the exact hardware you have.

Personally I never compile anything into modules unless there's no
other choice, as with the Nvidia driver as Dan mentioned...
From: barnabyh on 1 Mar 2010 15:02
>>
>>
>> Thanks for that. I have a Radeon 9800 Pro which until now was fine with
>> radeon driver in Xorg.
>> Everything from OpenArena to Glest to the above. It worked with
>> 2.6.29.6 and when upgraded to 2.6.30.5 without any further steps or prop
>> drivers.
>> So I'm wondering what's different with this kernel.
>>

>
> Slackware's .config compiles everything but the kitchen sink and it's
> all into modules. Do a make mrproper and build your own config from
> scratch. Do lsmod to find out what modules your machine currently has
> loaded, and lspci to see if your hardware really agrees with those.
> Only compile support for the exact hardware you have.
>
> Personally I never compile anything into modules unless there's no
> other choice, as with the Nvidia driver as Dan mentioned...

Will investigate further when time allows, probably at the end of the
week. I'm a bit hesitant to let it go now 'cos everything else is
working well.
Thankfully we still have the old kernel around for the odd 10 minutes o'
fun :) Not talking horizontal here.

Cheers-

Barnabyh
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everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants.
NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants.
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