On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:55:05PM +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote:
i have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel on my system. i've got the foll problems:
- i have usb port on my system, but i don't use them. so i disabled the usb
support. so i get the foll error while booting: "cannot initialise usb-uhci". is the above thing compulsory to be initialised? does it create any problems if it is not initialised?
Your hadrware detection daemon (kudzu) will detect the USB device and it will try to configure it. You are getting the error because you haven't copiled the support for USB. It should be safe to ignore this. To get rid of the errors configure kudzu to ignore USB.
- i get the foll error on bootup: "cannot find module char-major-10.."
what does the above error mean? what is it related to? what effects does it have on the system? how can i overcome the error?
These sort of errors are reported when the kernel does a modprobe for a missing module. Can you quote the exact error? Because I suspect the error could be something like
cannot find module char-major-10-xxx
where xxx is the minor number of the device.
Type the following command to get the list of all the devices with major number 10 along with thier minor numbers.
ls -l /dev/ | grep 10,
And now you can find out which driver is missing.
If this device happens to be one of "agpgart" you'll not be able to run X, if it is "psaux" then your PS/2 mouse won't work, if it is "rtc" or anything else there shouldn't be any problems.
- i cannot get the system to auto-shutdown, as can be done on my default Red
Hat 7.3 kernel (2.4.18-3). how do i get the kernel to do an auto-shutdown?
i'll be very grateful, if someone could help me out with the above problems
Do you mean "auto power off"? I am not really sure, enabling some "Power management support" options may do the trick.
-a