No, if that is an older machine what he has, it is better he sticks with 2.4. I already had this experience and the difference is amazing! With 2.6.1 it took ages to start firefox, with 2.4 I could run gnome and gimp end epiphany alltogether.
It was Toshiba notebook with 500MHz and 64MB of RAM. Now back to the thread: what is the output of lsmod after installing the new kernel ? It would be nice if you also attached a dmesg. Ionut On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:54:00AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > En/La shatam bhattacharya ha escrit, a 26/05/05 06:26: > | > | >... guess you installed your kernel-headers and alsa-utils as well? > | with alsaconf you should be able to install your soundmodule. *not* with > | modconf in this case.. > | > | alsaconf loads no drivers, does not detect any PnP or pci cards, neither > | it detects any legacy drivers!!! > | Any clues > | Shatam > | > | > | > | <http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp> > I agree with what Ionut said earlier in this thread about OSS. Check out > alsa and oss and you'll find they really don't like each other. Do you > really want to stick with a 2.4 kernel? Your life would be so much > easier just to bang in 2.6 and take it from there. > Cheers, > Jonathan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFClWR364+f0AXUe+4RAh+1AJ9aTw3W6uMLAsyBZofivGBDnfZNeQCfWcjF > gnaCnmo1eKJsrfCWh9/fvLk= > =tIZf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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