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cayenne
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 Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject: For Ultra2: How to find hardware config for kernel compile? |
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Hello all!!
I'm going to be putting Genoo on my Ultra2 3DCreator this weekend. In prep, I've been reading over the new install docs for the 2004.00 Live CD.
I have a couple of questions. Short of cracking open the case and running down part numbers. Is there an easy way to find out what exactly I have on this box I bought on eBay?
At this time...it does have solaris 5.7 on it..and I can log it. Are there some commands or screens I can find that can tell me such things for the Linux kernel config as:
What framebuffer support I need?
What type low level scsi support I need?
What specific NIC card I have?
And so on for my Linux install....just trying to set up a sheet in my record book for what hardware I have and list special settings before I start the install. I'm not familiar with Sun boxes...and not sure what commands or screens I can go to find out what the box actually has on it.
Any suggestions or links greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
cayenne
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Ferris
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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With solaris, prtconf and sysdef will give you a lot of what you need. See
their man pages.
But some things you can be sure of:
Your frame buffer is ffb, making the kernel, you will want
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CONFIG_FB_SBUS=y
CONFIG_FB_CREATOR=y
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CONFIG_DRM_NEW=y
CONFIG_DRM_FFB=y
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But the first time you boot linux, do dmesg, and it will tell you all this:
E.g., here's a little bit from mine:
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fb0: Elite 3D at 000001fc00000000 type 3 DAC 0
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
rtc_init: no PC rtc found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
sunhme.c:v2.01 26/Mar/2002 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
eth0: HAPPY MEAL (SBUS) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b4:ed:66
[drm] Initialized ffb 0.0.1 20000517 on minor 0
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
esp0: IRQ 4,7e0 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCYC=25000 CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
scsi0 : Sparc ESP366-HME
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318404LSUN18G Rev: 4207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318203LC Rev: 0002
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: iomega Model: jaz 2GB Rev: E.17
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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Your ethernet card is probably hme,
if you are making a kernel.
For scsi support, this works for me (on U2)
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# SCSI support
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CONFIG_SCSI=y
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# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom)
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
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Where you see Elite 3D above, yours should show Creator 3D.
Hope this helps;
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Ferris
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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That's garbled: The second code block should be just in front of
"Where you see," because it is from dmesg. |
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