From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I06po-0000zW-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:19:16 -0400 Received: (qmail 13093 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Jun 2007 19:18:45 -0700 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:18:45 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3? Message-ID: <20070618021845.GA13009@localhost.localdomain> References: <006001c7b145$70941080$9501a8c0@yellobow> <007601c7b154$56f192b0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007601c7b154$56f192b0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:19:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:56:59PM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Yes, lspci is very useful in knowing what hardware you have, and > therefore what drivers you need. Try using the -v verbose option. > Then on your running system, do lsmod and note what drivers you > have loaded, and match them with your pci devices. Some may > not be modules, because all of these drivers can be either loadable > modules or statically compiled into the kernel. Dmesg can also be very enlightening when determining the hardware in a system. If you are using a kernel that came with your distribution, then chances are good that most, if not all of the support for your hardware is built as modules, and isn't statically built into the kernel. > There is usually huge sections of the kernel that you don't > need on a PC, for example, I have an IDE controller so > I don't need SCSI, I only need SCSI emulation to support > CD burning, so I exlude most of SCSI. Actually, if you have an ide burner, and are running a 2.6.x kernel, then you don't need ide-scsi emulation for cd burning either. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGdeuF7s9z/XlyUyARAmfIAJ0cHghg5MyNX6e4mh/ArC7o2zQleACfR49B pvc6e3e5lN2kmga9mkCZmEU= =1FOv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----