[SOLVED] Compile Slackware with PAE

**Vince4Amy** · November 11th, 2008

I would like to compile the Slackware Kernel to make use of PAE because I have 4GB RAM and I would like to be able to make use of the whole lot.

I have no idea where to start on compiling the Kernel so how would I compile the Slackware 12.1 Kernel to support PAE?

**ilrudie** · November 11th, 2008

slack book system configuration - kernel

**Vince4Amy** · November 11th, 2008

Well that seems easy. Would I also be able to use the newest Kernel using this method or will that break stuff?

**ilrudie** · November 12th, 2008

You can certainly try using it. I don't know if it will break anything.

**Vince4Amy** · November 12th, 2008

Okay I'll give it a try, thanks for the link BTW. I've also disabled a lot of stuff when I tried this in a VM and it seems to be running a little faster then it already was.

**Vince4Amy** · November 18th, 2008

Sorted and working on the actual hardware.

http://www.slackbasics.org/html/kernel.html

Found this as well.

I disabled cpufreq and then enabled PAE. Took a while to compile but all seems to be running fine now. Just about to install the ATI Drivers hopefully the custom kernel will be fine with them.