Gentoo: hardware upgrade

[wmdvanzyl]

Hi Guys.

I'm gonna do a hardware upgrade pretty soon and i was wondering whether i need to change anything on the software side to make it go smoothly. Going from a good ol' 939 chipset board and amd athlon 64 and ddr 400 ram to a slightly less deprecated am2 board with amd athlon 2 cpu and ddr2 ram.

I figure as far as the kernel is concerned everything should just work right? i am not changing architecture or anything.

Any ideas?

 

[koffiejunkie]

I suppose that depends on what your compile flags were. But unless you did some really exotic stuff, going from Athlon64 to a newer AMD should be fine.

 

[GoofySmurf]

Meh

It depends what modules you compiled your kernel with and of course your compile flags .

 

[MyWorld]

There should not be a problem, or at least any mayor problems, your staying with AMD so your modules will more or less stay the same, the only sure way to know is to boot up and check if all the modules that should be loaded are loaded, if not, recompile and you are done. If you are using genkernel then you should run into less problems, depending on your flags like mentioned.

VGA - are you using the same GFX card? Then there is no problem!

Things you most probably will need to change:
Sound
LAN
Wireless
SATA module if it differs from the old board.

If there are any boot problems just boot with the LiveCD and compile your kernel accordingly.

 

[wmdvanzyl]

Thanks for the replies guys - i appreciate it. Gonna let you know how it went.

ATM i'm just struggling to get X back to a working condition. I've been kinda lazy with my updates and it is about time i did the hal to idev move in xorg. I didn't do a lot of preperation before the update - just closed my eyes and went for it, which is bad when the source files are 1G.. anyway... so now X doesn't recognize my keyboard and mouse, which means i constantly have to goof around with an old live cd (since i lost my 2010 amd64 live cd tsk tsk)... think i'm gonna set everything back to legacy for starters and then go on setting up udev from there...

...after all of that - finally the upgrade!!

 

[milomak]

what's the output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

it may be that if you have made the change to udev, the system no longer looks to /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load your mouse and keyboard drivers. There is an option you can put in your xorg.conf to force the system to use it, something like AllowEmptyInput.