Thanks for the help so far.
After rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk I have found even though I am not booting it, my system is not stable. in X/KDE the whole system has crashed twice today when loading ~30MB text files. Which never happend before. I can not ssh in to reboot, nothing is responsive except sysrq+alt+shift+ctrl etc, so i sync, unmount, reBoot again.
this is the line I use to boot.
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk label=linux2.4.19 root=/dev/hde2 read-only optional vga=normal append=" devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
Oddly USB is working slightly better than it used to with this kernel today!
Is there any reason my my computer could be crashing frequently in the old, working kernel?
I also have been trying to get kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk running ok, as an alternative, so I booted into kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk then:
Some things I can not install though
[EMAIL PROTECTED] now3d]# rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] now3d]# rpm -e kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk error: removing these packages would break dependencies: kernel-headers is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk kernel-headers >= 2.2.1 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk
I did not want to break it, so I have not installed them. I wanted to install them so I can rpm --rebuild the nvidia kernel driver so X will work..
Cheers
JG
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