On Friday 12 January 2001 08:36 am, Kevin Tambascio wrote:
> Have any of your tried the 2.4 kernel yet?
I've tried several over the past few months. They're get'n better,
either that or I am ;) 'Course my usual formula is to have a few beers
and then decide to give 2.4.x another try ;> I've always been able to
boot them, but with mixed levels of success running them. Last try
was last night with kernel-source-2.4.0-2mdk. It's all there in the
config, no patches needed .. ppp_generic, ppp_async, ppp_deflate to get
dialup going, ReiserFS support, and supermount, all built-in rather
than as modules. Stuff like Vfat I also build in, and enable legacy
support for ipchains so I don't have to redo firewall and portsentry.
Size has been almost 100k bigger than my 2.2.x kernels at 750k. I could
trim that down tho.
I can get a flawless 2.4 going, but not with supermount working ;(
'supermount -i enable' is ignored, with supermount either built in or
as a module. If I force the situation by putting in a saved supermount
'fstab', then I get a kernel panic on re-boot. I suspect it's a
supermount/ReiserFS deal. I haven't fooled with tryin to fix it very
much tho, I just get frustrated and reboot 2.2.18 ;)
While running 2.4.x, about the only thing I've noticed is a very
slight improvement in system response, slightly quicker loading. 2.4's
memory management is said to be improved. My hdparm checks on HDD's
were no change from 2.2.x. I don't have anything that needs 2.4. I
just try it out of curiosity.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
I tried to install and
> compile it last night, and had some success. I was able to reboot
> into the new kernel, but I had some error messages about loading FAT
> partitions, turned out I hadn't built in the VFAT into the kernel or
> module. I couldn't get my USB scanner (EPSON Perfection 610) working
> right away, I have to figure out what is happening. I was able to
> get my scanner working sometimes with 2.2.17. My SCSI card needs a
> new driver (Tekram 315), and I need to d/l a 2.4 based Vortex 1
> driver. My Ethernet card was not immediately working. I had to
> reselect in DrakConf that I needed the Tulip driver. After that, an
> insmod tulip, ifup eth was all I needed to get it working. Other
> than those things, KDE came up OK, and nothing else unusual was
> apparent.
>
> Would any other users care to share their experience so far?
>
> -Kevin
