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Henry Bremridge wrote: | Just bought a new machine (Athlon 64 2800, Jetway K8M8MS motherboard, Geforce FX 5500 128mb, and a 17" LCD screen)
| Installed Debian sarge (2.6.8-1-386) no problem, and will over the next few weeks migrate more and more of my work to this machine. | | Problem | | This machine sounds and feels like I have an electric heater going on the whole time. And I want to be able (in the same as windows) to send the machine into sleep / hibernation after say 10 or 15 minutes of inactivity.
| From what I read yesterday, I need to: | a) Upgrade the kernel (2.6.11.7 is the latest stable one I found) and build in support for the athlon chip | b) Run "athcool" or a similar program, that will enable apic | | I have found the kernel, I have downloaded it, and I can run make menuconfig (but not xconfig..each time I do I get a demand that it wants the QT libraries, and not gconfig - forgot the reasons for that)
| But rather than going through the entire kernel and setting it up from scratch, I thought it would make a lot more sense to Load an Alternate Configuration file and then amend the settings in my current kernel.
Personally I would build from scratch... but thats just me... cut out all the unrequired stuff..
| Question | | Where can I find the existing kernel configuration (2.6.8-1-386)?
er.. /boot can't remember the file name from memory tho... plain text file tho...
| Are there any recommendations that people would offer? |
Use a 64bit distro if i were you.. you shelled out for a 64bit CPU.. may as well use it..
I will be going down the Stage 1 gentoo 64bit route... think it will run Doom 2 ?
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