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Topic: How to install CPU Freq Driver, Use cpufreqd with acpid and ACPI

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Juanito

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Posted: Nov. 20 2006,09:35

Sorry, but this is still not clear for me - maybe this is because I am using DSL from a USB stick, not a HD install where the kernel recompilation would be "permanent".

I can copy/restore the newly created modules without problems. I presume from your comments, I need to "re-pack" the recompiled kernel into the /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file and re-boot from that.

Could you give me some pointers as to what I need to re-pack from the recompiled kernel - i.e. which folders/files I would need to replace in the original unpacked KNOPPIX file?

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Posted: Nov. 20 2006,14:38

It's not in the KNOPPIX image.

The easiest way is to check your bootloader i.e. grub.

for example..

Code Sample

title I9NV-2, nousb noscsi dma frugal
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda6 vga=791 nousb noscsi dma frugal fromhd=/dev/hda6
initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
boot

I don't think you'll need to replace the initrd though.

Juanito

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Posted: Nov. 20 2006,16:15

Since this is a USB install, my bootloader is syslinux.cfg which calls linux24 and then minirt24.gz:

DEFAULT linux24 APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal apm=off acpi=force initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet frugal restore=sda1 toram mydsl=sda1

Does "make bzImage" produce a new linux24/minirt24.gz? So much stuff comes up in the terminal window after entering the command, I couldn't see the wood for the trees...

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Posted: Nov. 20 2006,17:50

make bzImage I think compresses and packages them in a different format, but I'm don't remember exactly. It shouldn't matter though, you still should be able to boot off it.

If you want to log everthing, you can append " &> my_log_file.log" to any terminal command. At least in bash, this will log both stdout and stderr to the named text file. You'll also notice you won't see the large amount of text, because this is all being redirected to the text file. I usually use tail -f my_log_file.log in another terminal to view its progress.

Juanito

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Posted: Nov. 21 2006,09:00

Thanks - I'll check that.

In the meantime, it occurrs to me that I might be using the wrong .config file. I was using the .config file that came with linux-2.4.26.tar.gz which appeared to be the same file as that in kernelsource.dsl - is this the right file or is there a .config file specific to DSL 3.0.1?

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