Hi I bougth this new Motherboard from Asus sporting 400Mhz memories and 6 USB 2.0 ports etc.. Anyway it has a Southbridge called VT8235. I recived a patch from Vojtech Pavlik who seems to be the maintainer of the VIA chipsets in the kernel. I manually applied this patch and then ran: make dep make bzImage modules modules_install The compile ends with alot of depmod:'s (these are the last two files) <pre> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/misc/vt1211.o depmod: i2c_register_entry_Rsmp_70407a3d depmod: i2c_detect_Rsmp_47c58145 depmod: i2c_proc_real_Rsmp_7005ecf4 depmod: i2c_add_driver_Rsmp_6d7c1838 depmod: i2c_deregister_entry_Rsmp_ec85ba8b depmod: i2c_detach_client_Rsmp_6f8b23f6 depmod: i2c_sysctl_real_Rsmp_85eca790 depmod: i2c_del_driver_Rsmp_11a76106 depmod: i2c_attach_client_Rsmp_0e8734a0 depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/misc/w83781d.o depmod: i2c_smbus_write_word_data_Rsmp_c32a8c12 depmod: i2c_register_entry_Rsmp_70407a3d depmod: i2c_check_functionality_Rsmp_853b26dc depmod: i2c_detect_Rsmp_47c58145 depmod: i2c_proc_real_Rsmp_7005ecf4 depmod: i2c_smbus_read_byte_data_Rsmp_c8f71111 depmod: i2c_add_driver_Rsmp_6d7c1838 depmod: i2c_smbus_write_byte_data_Rsmp_4ece1922 depmod: i2c_deregister_entry_Rsmp_ec85ba8b depmod: i2c_detach_client_Rsmp_6f8b23f6 depmod: i2c_adapter_id_Rsmp_10504a11 depmod: i2c_smbus_read_word_data_Rsmp_10b1457b depmod: i2c_sysctl_real_Rsmp_85eca790 depmod: i2c_del_driver_Rsmp_11a76106 depmod: i2c_attach_client_Rsmp_0e8734a0 </pre> The modified file compiles allright (i get a .o file anyway) And I cant figure out whats wrong now... It must be that Im not using a vanilla kernel.. I thought you should apply the patch since without it I cant benefit from UDMA133Mhz busses etc.
Created attachment 5013 [details, diff] Fixes support for the vt8235 southbridge Got this from Vojtech <vojtech@suse.cz>: ---------------------- Hi! You all asked me about what to do with your VIA chipset. For those who have vt8233a, it's enough to upgrade to 2.4.19. For those with vt8235, it's also needed to install the attached patch. Enjoy, -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs --------------
Those depmod errors look like their from lm_sensors modules. try cleaning out /llib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/ and make modules modules_install again. Then re-emerge lm_sensors.
after applying the patch, you needed to do the following in your kernel source tree. cp .config ../.config make distclean cp ../.config . make oldconfig dep bzImage modules modules_install doing any less than that FULL recompile after a patch invalidates this bug.
