> How to find out svga, dma chipset
"lspci -v" and/or "lspci -vv"
I couldn't make out anything from the output for svga or dma. It will be nice if you can be more explicit.
>> and all the cpu flags it uses
>How to know?
cat /proc/cpuinfo
mine is
lvgdell600m:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 9
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 1398.972
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe tm2 est
bogomips : 2777.08
what are significance of various lines and how it helps in compiling a kernel
-->Should I use any patch to the source installed
>so that 2.6.8 becomes 2.6.8-2-386?
No. It depends on your architecture.
>From what I can tell, you could try to get
started using the debian example
named /boot/config... (complete). Or grab the
.config of a newer kernel (taken from the debian
archive).
Regards,
Nelson.-
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