On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 23:18 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > My problem is that some of the drivers I need aren't keeping up with the > > kernel releases, like the NVIDIA drivers, for instance. > > The driver issue in 2.6 has impacted me, though in the other direction. > 2.6 includes some new mouse drivers and I've had issues with those in oldish > touchpad laptops (though more recent releases have been better).
I despise touchpads. I use a wireless mouse with my laptop. In any event, I used to have issues with touchpads under the 2.4 kernel. The 2.6 kernel has cleared up those issues for me. I would imagine a lot of backporting has taken place by now, anyway. Now, if we can just get NVIDIA to keep more up to date and do releases more often than once a quarter -- if that much. Back to the kernel -- what I'd like to do evenutally is build a 64-bit machine with perhaps 16Gbytes of ram, and make /tmp a ramdisk so I can store all sorts of potentially sensitive information there that I don't wish to keep on the harddrive, such as file caches and the like. Also, I want to eliminate the paging file altogether -- don't see a point for it when you have that much RAM. Are there any issues with having a kernel running without a paging file outside of giving you "extra" memory to swap out least-used pages? Also, are there any issues with getting 32-bit drivers to work in a 64- bit environment? Especially proprietary ones like NVIDIA? -- -Fred Your government delights in doing things "for" you. By the time it's too late, you'll realize it's being done *to* you. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
