Re: Distro/program for customizing the kernel to my needs?
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/20/05
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Date: 20 Jan 2005 14:42:09 GMT
On 20 Jan 2005 05:34:03 -0800, Koppe74 staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
> Are there any programms/distros/boot-disks out there suitable for
> discovering which drivers (e.g. for soundcards, screencard,...)my
> computer actually *uses* (which therefor I'll need), thus making it
> easier to configure my own Linux-kernel?
/sbin/lspci works really well. Like so:
paganini:~$ lspci
CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0c)
Serial controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 01)
Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24
IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3
...obviously, the Ethernet card is an EEPro100, so I need the eepro100
module. The soundcard is obviously a CS46xx, so I need the cs46xx
OSS module or its ALSA equivalent. The IDE chipset is a PIIX, so I have
to enable support for that IDE chipset or live with terrible "bonehead
mode" IDE performance. The PCMCIA chipset says "TI", but that's bogus;
all PCMCIA chipsets available today use yenta_socket. The USB chipset
is not obvious from lspci here, but do this:
lspci -v | grep HCI
USB Controller: Intel Corp. PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
...so I obviously need usb-uhci (uhci-hcd in 2.6 kernels). The video
card is an ATi Rage, so I'd use the r128 X server and compile the r128
kernel module if I wanted DRI. HTH,
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