I built a 2.5 kernel three weeks ago and have been using it on my work desktop system without any major problems. Nvidia drivers work fine. DevFS can be a little bit tricky to get working. ALSA built into the 2.5 kernel works fine...
Mark On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 19:37, Tony Clark wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 02.10, Chris Kehler wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:19:01PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > > > On 24 Mar 2003 21:56:00 +0200 > > > > > > Martin Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .. > > > > > > Here's yet another thought. I'm using ALSA. Is it possible to have ALSA > > > with 2.5.x without messing up sound for 2.4.x? > > > > > > I question all this, because the kernel developers are now actively > > > seeking testers for 2.5.x, but I'm not interested if it screws up my > > > 2.4.x setup. > > > > I've been using 2.5.x kernels with gentoo since about 2.5.28. I've had to > > tweak a few things manually here and there, but everything I need works. I > > haven't had any reason to boot back into a 2.4.x kernel. > > I've been thinking of give a 2.5 kernel a shot. Just wondering how do you get > around nvidia driver problem. I guess you can use the nv driver but I really > don't like the performance you get from it. Nvidia's own drivers are much > better but the last time I checked they won't build against a 2.5 kernel. > > tony -- Mark Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cytek Pty Ltd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
