On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:11:50AM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > Now, back to my XOrg problem, after installing LFS-6.6 per the book, I > patched up to the last 2.6.39 kernel. It lost floppy support, so I > needed the 39.4 patch. This is still further than the latest stable > kernels. I'm thinking of yanking out all the patches today and just > patching to the latest stable 2.6 kernel, 34.13. Then retrying the > XOrg install with that kernel support. > > My questions are: does anybody know of troubles with those latest "not > stable" kernels? With the LFS-6.6 base, is it possible/advisable to > take a baby-step over the line and install an early 3.0 kernel? (Would > that make further LFS updates easier?)
My LFS-6.6 system is now hardly ever used, and I really doubt that changing the kernel will make much difference on your old hardware [ I guess you don't use kms - kernel modesetting, but maybe you do since your Mesa problem was re i915 ? ]. But newer kernels should not be a problem. My own 6.6 has run 2.6.23.46, 3.0.9, 3.1 (but 3.1 is no longer supported), and now 3.0.36. As always, the userspace headers do not get altered for a kernel upgrade. Not sure about your comment about 2.6.39.4 being further than the latest stable kernels - I thought 2.6.39 was no longer maintained. Looking at kernel.org shows 3.0.57, perhaps 2.6.34.13, and 2.6.32.60 as well as 3.2.35, 3.4.24, 3.7.1. Please remind me : you appear to have some sort of problem with libpciaccess, but apart from an error message, presumably from startx, I haven't seen any indication that anything is not working, so I'm unclear what is your problem is. For me, error messages in startx are not uncommon, and only something to worry about if something doesn't work. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
