well the problem is not apic its local apic and in the 2.4 kernel there is not a nolapic boot paramater. this parameter does exist in the 2.6 kernel.

Ah, thanks, Xsecrets

It has taken me a while but I recompiled the kernel without APIC support. My next problem is that the NIC is not recognized. When a run netconfigcard I get an error of "no supported network card"

Any ideas how I can get my NUC configured?

Thanks,
Mike G.

sounds like a personal problem LOL

what kind of NIC is it? Are you sure you compiled in support for the NIC or that you compiled support as a module?

when I compiled I used the .config in the boot directory.

I am using an onboard NIC. nForce2 MCP 10/100 Ethernet LAN

When I compiled this is what I did.

make menuconfig
changed only APIC
make dep
make bzInstall
make modules
make modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-xfs
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.22-xfs

modified lilo to remove initd.gz

rebooted.

Thanks,
Mike G.

Did you run install-nvnet again?

yup BugRodger got it you will have to rerun that script to make a module for the new kernel.

I am making progress but still no success.


When I execute netcardconfig I am prompted "Use DHCP broadcast" I answer yes as I did with the original kernel and the netcardconfig hangs. Also when I execute net that also hangs.

Any advice would be great.

signed, frustrated.
(BTW, I will probably have sound problems once I fix my network problems. )

did the install-nvnet script run without errors?

from a root console

is the nvnet module loaded?

I don't think the nvnet module is loaded.

When I run

what you got tells you that the module is loaded

have you tried using a static address instead of dhcp?

Ok, I was able to recompile the kernel w/o APIC support.

- install distro
- install-nvnet.sh
- netcardconfig
- build kernel
- reboot
- complete myth setup
- alsa install - I followed the ALSA Nvidia's guide that BugRoger recommended. version 0.9.8


The ALSA install fails on reboot handing with the last line "module snd-seq-device loaded, with warnings"

I feel that I am close but have spent too much time trying to remove APCI support.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike G.

ok After re-compiling the kernel I decided not to recompile ALSA. I decided that recompiling was not necessary because the sound was compiled into the kernal as a loadable module, therefore I assumed I can use the new kernel with the old ALSA drivers that came with the distro. The syslog shows the following errors.

aumix get the following error : error opening mixer
alsamixer gets the folloing error alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

It is my belief that the ALSA driver is not loading I don't know why.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike G.


Dec 25 10:14:57 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-slot-
0 failed
Dec 25 10:14:57 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-servi
ce-0-0 failed
Dec 25 10:15:57 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod char-major-
116 failed
Dec 25 10:15:57 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod char-major-
116 failed
Dec 25 10:17:29 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-slot-
0 failed
Dec 25 10:17:29 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-servi
ce-0-0 failed
Dec 25 10:17:39 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-slot-
0 failed
Dec 25 10:17:39 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-servi
ce-0-0 failed
Dec 25 10:17:58 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-slot-
0 failed
Dec 25 10:17:58 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-servi
ce-0-0 failed
Dec 25 10:18:07 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-slot-
0 failed
Dec 25 10:18:07 mythtv insmod: /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o: insmod sound-servi
ce-0-0 failed

Ok, I've finally recompiled my kernel by following the instructions from BugRoger (thanks).
I've got the sound and video drivers working again, but ivtv doesn't seem to find the capture card. Before I did this the /var/log/messages during boot would show many lines of card setup after the 'Linux video capture interface: v1.00' line. But now all I get is that line and nothing else until the ioctls fail saying /dev/video0 doesn't exist (once I get a prompt it is there in ls).
I still get the intertext compression device line during boot meaning that the card probe found the card.

Does anyone know what other modules BugRoger was refering to needing to be rebuilt when he says 'There will still be some module definitions in modules.conf that you haven't compiled yet'.

I'm thinking I need to rebuild the ivtv stuff, but I don't see the source anywhere. I've checked my module.conf and it still has all of the options from /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv and ivit0.

Any advice?

Btw: to mgordon, I got the same warnings about missing symbols when I compiled the alsa stuff but I continued anyway and my audio works fine so far.

well you will defiantely need to recompile the ivtv drivers, and I'm pretty sure the source is included, I've never had to recompile the drivers on knoppmyth, but it looks like the source is in /usr/local/lib/ivtv/driver/