On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:50:18 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: > > Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling in more. > However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and running lilo. > Funny--worked fine last week. I am wondering whether to bite the bullet > and simply install a stock kernel. Since I need Nouveau, it would need > to be a more recent kernel, a 2.6.33,4 or 5. Which is recommended > (all are called experimental and many images are simply lacking)?
The standard 2.6.32 kernel used by Squeeze (I currently use 2.6.32-5-686 version 2.6.32-20) works fine, and includes the nouveau driver. The nouveau driver seems to work OK in my experience, as long as you don't need interlaced video modes. > Heard tell of compatibility problems with various nouveau compiles > and its xorg drivers. This would, of course, use the initrd. > I stopped using initrd when the installations ran yaird and this never > worked. Debian has given up on yaird for now. Stock kernels use initramfs-tools, which seems to work fine. > I used to use the old mkinitrd and have an obselete conf > for it. Now, the update-initramfs serves this. Is this smart enough > to get me running with the newer SATA/PATA drivers (module policy > defaults to "most")? The 2.6.32-5-686 kernel uses the newer libata drivers. > Do I need to specify most everything like > in mkinitrd? MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy seems to work fine as long as you don't "cross build" your initial RAM file systems. I.e. don't build an initial RAM file system for a kernel which uses the old IDE drivers while running a kernel which uses the newer libata drivers, or vice versa. > (Yaird had a test mode which gave a usable list of what > to include.) If you use the -v switch on update-initramfs it will list the modules that it includes. > Can these images be used with lilo or are they already > too large? I don't have any personal experience with the amd64 images, but I can attest that the i386 ones work fine with lilo, especially if you use the large-memory option, and especially if you use MODULES=dep. I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but you might want to take a look at my kernel-building web page, http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm. It may have some information that you will find useful, even if you use a stock kernel, and especially if you use lilo. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502817804.543379.1283377622986.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com