Well I will tell ya this. Most people have problems with sound cards. The configuration for them just doesn't seem to be there yet for the distros (Mandrake... who knows). I had problems with it detecting ANY ensoniq based sound chips.
If you boot up your kernel, and you are fighting SOUND issues. Find out what driver gets used currently (on the 2.4x kernel). Build the sound system into the Kernel and build the driver into the kernel (not as a module). This tip might save you some time. Many people have expressed problems in this area, and that tip seems to work for most. If you have a USB Mass Storage device (USB Camera) etc - if you find it recognizes it but refuses to mount then you've encountered a known problem (that still afflict 2.6.1+ kernels). There is a temporary work around if you encounter this. When building the kernel I recommend turning on "Preemptive Kernel", and turn on the APIC related items on (if the APIC doesn't apply to your hardware they supposedly don't cause a degradation in performance if present in the kernel) People have claimed that Power Management has caused problems on their hardware and manifested itself as weirdness. If you use VMWARE you need to download a patch for the 2.6.x+kernels to compile. I found that BTTV support in the 2.6 kernel is very good (In the past BTTV was a problem for configuration). I also recommend making sure sysfs is turned on (and the appropriate entry in fstab made and /sys created). One other significant change is that you want to remove all references to ide-scsi. In the 2.6 kernel IDE CD-roms no longer used the scsi modules (make sure you remove any kernel parameters regarding cd drives from your configuration). Lastly one major change is that 2.6 kernels use /etc/modprobe.conf instead of /etc/modules.conf . This is the biggest change (the format has changed a bit for the file). All I can say is that a preemptive kernel + KDE3.2 just flies. I am might impressed at the performance gains. If you use VMWARE it runs a lot better under the newer kernels.I know there are things I haven't mentioned. All I can say is Good Luck! Mike On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:04, C Nielsen wrote: > Michael Petch wrote: > > >Not I, but I am about to upgrade my Fedora Core 1 with it. I have run > >the 2.6 kernels since test1 with good success on RH9, and didn't have > >many problems except for modprobe.conf changes. Unfortunately I do not > >use Mandrake. > > > >Having problems with the upgrade? or are you about to jump in feet first > >and are looking for opinions on the crocodiles? > > > >Mike > > > >On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 12:35, C Nielsen wrote: > > > > > >>Has anyone tried to upgrade Mandrake 9.2 with the new 2.6 kernel? > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>clug-talk mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> > >> > That's exactly it...I have going in slow so it's both feet or > nothing....a reinstall is only a CD away after all -- Mike Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. Suite 1002,1140-15th Ave SW. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2R 1K6. (403)804-5700. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
