Howto emerge old gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r6

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lpt2007 · Post by **lpt2007** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:50 pm

How can I emerge an old kernel-source?

I need this one:

gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r6

solamour · Post by **solamour** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:00 am

I suggest you read related posts if you haven't already done so. There are a few different ways to do it, but I think using overlay is a safe choice.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-890128.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-890966.html
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lpt2007 · Post by **lpt2007** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:26 am

solamour wrote:I suggest you read related posts if you haven't already done so. There are a few different ways to do it, but I think using overlay is a safe choice.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-890128.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-890966.html
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I already read this posts, but I am total n00b in this case. Can you give me some tips howto do this for gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r6?

I need to compile kernel from this sources because I need 3d acceleration for my graphics card via p4m900 and I have driver sources that only
work with kernel 2.6.28 or lower.

Post by Hu » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:01 pm

Linux graphics support has improved over the years. Are you sure that there is no in-kernel support for your card? What is the output of lspci -nn?

lpt2007 · Post by **lpt2007** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:31 pm

Hu wrote:Linux graphics support has improved over the years. Are you sure that there is no in-kernel support for your card? What is the output of lspci -nn?

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lspci -nn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge [1106:0364]
00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge [1106:1364]
00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge [1106:2364]
00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge [1106:3364]
00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge [1106:4364]
00:00.5 PIC [0800]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller [1106:5364]
00:00.6 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Security Device [1106:6364]
00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge [1106:7364]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge [1106:b198]
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller [1106:a364] (rev 80)
00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller [1106:c364] (rev 80)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:7372]
00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev b0)
00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev b0)
00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev b0)
00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev b0)
00:10.4 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 90)
00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237S PCI to ISA Bridge [1106:3372]
00:11.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller [1106:287e]
00:13.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge [1106:337b]
00:13.1 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge [1106:337a]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] [1106:3371] (rev 01)
07:03.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet [10ec:8169] (rev 10)
80:01.0 Audio device [0403]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) [1106:3288] (rev 10)

Post by Hu » Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:44 pm

According to Debian GNU/Linux device driver check page, that video card is supported by viafb as of v2.6.32. However, that may not include 3D support. What are you doing that requires 3D from such an old card?

solamour · Post by **solamour** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:29 pm

I have something similarly underpowered graphic card. I basically followed "Hardware 3D Acceleration Guide" (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml), and it did work.

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# lspci -nn | grep -i vga
00:01.1 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode LX Video [1022:2081]

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$ glxinfo | grep -i rendering
direct rendering: Yes

It won't be practical to use it for anything entertaining, but it does work nonetheless. Perhaps it might be similar with via's case.

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$ glxgears
21 frames in 5.1 seconds =  4.098 FPS
24 frames in 5.2 seconds =  4.624 FPS
23 frames in 5.0 seconds =  4.560 FPS
24 frames in 5.1 seconds =  4.734 FPS
24 frames in 5.1 seconds =  4.687 FPS
24 frames in 5.1 seconds =  4.689 FPS
24 frames in 5.1 seconds =  4.722 FPS

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lpt2007 · Post by **lpt2007** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:22 pm

Hu wrote:According to Debian GNU/Linux device driver check page, that video card is supported by viafb as of v2.6.32. However, that may not include 3D support. What are you doing that requires 3D from such an old card?

I will only use this machine for XBMC media center (require 3d rendering), I alredy try on windows and there xbmc is working great, but I don't like windows and I wanna use
gentoo for background sistem for this machine. There must be the way to make XBMC work on gentoo and my graphic card.

lpt2007 · Post by **lpt2007** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:21 pm

Nobody have success with 3d rendering on graphics card like my?

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] [1106:3371] (rev 01)