You might want to give the latest dev kernel a whirl ... I've had very good experiences with 2.5.74.
Sean On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 00:29, Christian Aust wrote: > Hi all, > > gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r5 is nice and powerful, but unfortunately has > older ACPI sources which my laptop desperately needs (Compaq EVO N800C, > acpi-only). So I'm wondering: > > Can I update/patch acpi of gentoo-sources to some version more current? > > I guess not, since those patches rely on the version of source code they > are intended to be applied to. However, I also tried to use > vanilla-sources 2.4.21 and apply the -ck3 patch. It builds and compiles > seamlessly using gcc-3.2.2, but when this kernel starts, it panics when > it tries to enumerate the LUNs of my IDE controller. The message reads > "wrong operand 0000; kernel bug in sched.c:1171" and then it halts. > > Can anybody please give me some advice on how I could fix this, either > update acpi of gentoo-sources or fix that error of the ck3-patched > vanilla-sources? Your help is greatly appreciated. Best regards, > > - Christian
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