On Saturday 05 June 2004 01.04, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Friday 04 June 2004 02:59 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 04 June 2004 21.33, Richard Atcheson wrote:
What kind of chipset does it have for the drive?
VIA
Is the DMA working?
Yes
Thanks Anders, I'm a bit curious, if you look at your kernel config, does it show it to be using the K6 or the generic 586 kernel?
It just occured to me that each of the kernel configs list mine as the generic rather than the K6, however I can do menuconfig/xconfig and select the K6 and build the opti module which means my dma does wonders. I wonder if the hardware scan sees my Laptop as a generic old thing rather than the K6 and if it does, how can I convince the SuSE install to use the K6 with opti chipset. Interestingly though, I have booted with the Knoppix 3.3 and 3.4 and it sees and configures for the K6 with opti chipset so it cant be all that difficult.
SuSE doesn't recompile the kernel on install, and neither (I believe) does knoppix. If knoppix provides you with a K6 specific kernel, then that has been precompiled for you on the CD. SuSE has no such K6 specific precompiled kernel, and to the best of my knowledge they have never had one. I get the default kernel when I install, as I mentioned earlier in the thread. Why they don't provide the opti module I have no idea. But as you discovered, recompiling a suse kernel is very easily done.