greg_corson@... wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Probably a really stupid question but here goes. I've installed fedora
> core 1 on my machine, it appears to have installed oprofile (all the man
> pages and stuff are there) but when I try to start it up with opcontrol
> it says
>
> modprobe: Can't locate module oprofile
> modprobe: Can't locate module oprofile
> Kernel doesn't support oprofile
>
> This is with one of the update kernels 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Right out of
> the box should I be able to use the oprofile that fedora core 1 comes
> with? RPM shows oprofile-0.7cvs-0.20030829 is installed, is some setup
> required to get it going? Are only certain fedora core 1 kernels setup
> to use it?
> I haven't tried downloading the latest oprofile and building it from
> scratch, would this be a better approach than using the one included
> with fedora core 1? Would a kernel rebuild be necessary?
>
> If I could use the version that comes with fedora core 1 it would be
> helpful simply because I need to get it running on a number of different
> machines.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Greg
The Fedora Core (and Red Hat Linux) uniprocessor kernels are built
without OProfile support. This is due to the APIC support being turned
off to ensure the kernel boots on a laptops. Install and boot the SMP
kernel RPM, The SMP kernel has OProfile support. That should work in FC1.
This question comes up quite often. It probably should be added to
http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/faq/.
-Will
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