Building Custom Kernel

[underworld288]

I have a netbook and I'm trying to get ubuntu running at optimal speed it can. I am looking at the driver section of the config and need help find out what - if any - sata drivers I need. Is there a way to find about information like this about my hardware?

[theNbomr]

If the system is presently running under Linux, you can run dmesg, and grep for 'sata', case insensitive:

dmesg | grep -i sata

On the system I'm using to write this, I get

sata_promise 0000:00:08.0: version 2.12

among a lot of other stuff.
--- rod.

[devils casper]

A lot of sevices can be stopped to run Linux at optimal speed.
Post the output of this

ls /etc/rc2.d

Post output here.

Which Graphics Card do you have?

lspci | grep -i vga

[nmset]

You can get tons of information about your system with the hwinfo utility. I don't know if it's in Ubuntu repos, if not, you can find it on the net.

[devils casper]

hwinfo package is available in Universe sources of Ubuntu.

[underworld288]

Some output from the lshw command...

 *-storage
             description: SATA controller
             product: SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 11
             bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0
             logical name: scsi0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage pm bus_master cap_list emulated
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=64
             resources: irq:22 ioport:8420(size=8) ioport:8414(size=4) ioport:8418(size=8) ioport:8410(size=4) ioport:8400(size=16) memory:f0508000-f05083ff

What I get out of that is that my sata controller is made by ATI and it is using the achi driver, right?

The output of cat /etc/rc2.d was...

README                 S25bluetooth   S70dns-clean       S99laptop-mode
S16ssh                 S31atieventsd  S70pppd-dns        S99ondemand
S20dkms_autoinstaller  S50cups        S90binfmt-support  S99rc.local
S20exim4               S50pulseaudio  S95preload         S99xdm
S20kerneloops          S50rsync       S99acpi-support
S20speech-dispatcher   S50saned       S99grub-common

Now what?

[devils casper]

Do you use Printer, Scanner, bluetooth and rsync? You can stop these services.

[underworld288]

Where is the printer? How do I stop them from starting at boot time?

[nmset]

You may gain more if you choose the rght processor family, preemption model, timer frequency, if you lower the size of your kernel, discard all experimental features of the kernel...

Unused services do consume some RAM, not necessarily much CPU cycles, but not much RAM. Deal with them lastly.

It seems that you are not ready yet to compile a kernel knowingly. Your future attempts will surely produce the kernel that you want.

[hatebreed]

I disagree, I have a dual p2 that was running very slow and I stopped all the notifier services and print, etc. Installed lxde window manager and now this system is running great. Gnome takes up alot of resources, as I found out through my own tinkering and this is why I went to lxde.