I would really suggest trying to switch eventually though it should work
on 2.6.9 but there is a lot of bug fixes on 2.6.10. It shouldnt work
too much different from your kernel you have now you just have to make
sure you have all the correct kernel modules loaded for your hardware.
once you have all the correct kernel modules compiled for new kernel.
It wouldnt be like a switch from 2.4 to 2.6. between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10
there shouldnt be too many huge differences. There's a lot of bug
fixes, its the best they made so far
the only ones I use are the agpgart cipset alsa NIC and nvidia which
gets compiled from. But personally i wouldnt worry about upgading to
the new version of the kernel breaking anything. it could possibly even
fix things rather than break them.
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 11:55 +0000, Peng wrote:
> On 01/16/05 11:36, Tim Watson wrote:
> > I had some similar problems with that kernel which i solved by using the
> > noapic and nolapic kernel options. You can turn these on in your grub
> > config. Make sure /boot is mounted, and edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > file.
> > Find the line for your current kernel that looks like this:
> > 'kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 '
> > and append noapic nolapic to the end. Reboot and cross fingers :-)
> >
> > When I switched to 2.6.10 this problem vanished.
> > It might be worth doing 'dmesg' just after the machine boots and see if
> > there
> > are any obvious problems. AGPGART would be a possibility as a source of
> > problems. Post the output if you want me to have a look.
> >
> > Also, try changing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf setting to use the gpl driver
> > 'nv' (or 'vesa') rather than 'nvidia'. Restart X and run it for a couple
> > of
> > hours - does it freeze? If not, then check out the lengthy Nvidia readme
> > (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1/README.gz) as it is quite
> > comprehensive and has some good troubleshooting hints.
> >
> > Tim Watson
> > uk
>
> I don't want to switch to another kernel, though... Do you know how much
> work it took to get everything to work in this kernel?
>
> *Sigh* But you're pretty sure doing so would fix this?
>
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