-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:07 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Thu Feb 20, 2003 at 10:58:03AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > [...] > > > Have people actually managed to BUILD 2.4.19-24mdk and use it? Or are > > you simply using the binary version. What did MandrakeSoft do to get it > > to build and actually work, if this is the case? To what god(s) did they > > offer sacrifice to so that it would work on any hardware at all? > > I built the 2.4.19-24mdk packages. They took a while, but they built (from > rpm). I rebuilt them once from source as a test to make sure they built, > but I don't recall if I booted from that compiled version or not. > > I have installed the binary package in vmware, on an "enterprise" machine, > on an "smp" machine, and on an "up" machine. In all cases, everything > worked just peachy. > > You seem to have a lot of problems with Linux that I just never come > across. I see quite often you having problems with stuff on the list. > Perhaps your luck just isn't very good. =) > > Seriously, a number of people tested this kernel before we put it out. We > can't test every piece of hardware out there, but anything major we can > usually spot quite quickly. I don't know why it doesn't work for you.
The hardware is new but still old enough to have proven itself over time. I have tried completely removing the source package, kernel modules directory, source, etc, and then reinstalling the kernel-source rpm, and redoing the build. I have always ultimately rebuilt my own kernels, first from tarballs and more recently, from source rpms. It has only really been with 9.0 and the 2.4.19+ kernels that I have had problems. I had to dump my XFS filesystem to get a custom-built 2.4.19 9.0 kernel to work with my system (known issue - the kernel makefile indicates that for xfs support - and thus the whole kernel as a result, should be built with egcc?! Who uses that anymore? I thought that it and gcc had been merged over a year ago). In any case, the harddrive is new, the system memory is sound, the CPU is sound, the video card is sound (NVidia Ti4200). I was hoping someone would have run into this sort of kernel-uselessness situation and also found a way out of it. I am reluctant to simply install a binary kernel. They don't tend to work very well with my wireless devices. praedor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Vj6cwDUPEkSvRHERAhirAJ9CS8kli7h97eqT6vg/pfAI38aelgCgjjKA 8Bas4IMVBoJeJz8IuJKpb4c= =SNpa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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