moving from amd to p3?

[Gregory Nowak]

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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


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