Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 12:00 am, Brock Campbell wrote: I haven't spent a lot of time on these things, but they have been flaky for me. It's on a Dell Insp.4150. APM, ACPI. lost the ability to suspend. screen blanking doesn't work. Winmodem. I bought the Linuxant drivers, now when I install them, Hotplug fails to insert them on startup, worked fine with 2.4 You could try editing /etc/modules.d/hcfpci and removing the final line, the one that reads probeall hcfpciserial hcfpcihw That worked for me when modprobe and kppp couldn't load the commercial Linuxant modules into 2.6. YMMV of course. Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 00:48, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? The only thing that has been somewhat problematic for me is that OpenAFS still does not work with 2.6. I don't need it always, so it's not been a showstopper, but from the discussion in the openafs lists, it looks like it might be a while before it's ported. Other than that, I have nothing but good things to say about 2.6. Particularly interactive performance is fantastic - I almost never feel my system slowing down, even under the highest loads. --Diego -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? I don't know - it should. I installed it manually (that was still under SuSE). And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? No, the new utils will check what kernel is running and transparently call the old ones if it's 2.4 or earlier. Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
William Kenworthy wrote: e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) I've got 2.6.0-test9 on a Compaq Deskpro with a 350 MHz Pentium II, and it looks perfectly happy with it. The fact that it freezes everytime I try to recompile glibc is purely because its harddisk is dying... :) XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems No XFS-related problems on the only desktop I'm using it on. What kind of issues should I be experiencing? The only problems I do have on that machine (2.6.2 mm kernel with udev 015, no devfs) are lacking device nodes for my USB scanner and a parallel printer that has ceased to work, both undoubtedly because I can't get my brain around udev... Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Hi, On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:17:32AM +0100, Arne Vogel wrote: Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Hmmm, weird, I downloaded the latest driver from the NVIDIA site and it seems to work quite well using 2.6.1 Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). Not for me, somehow 2.6.1 and nv seemed to have some problems (messed up graphics when starting X) experience problems. The system responsitivity under heavy I/O load (tar xjf...) was greatly improved, so personally I hope these 2 things that prevent me from switching, non-working Hardware OpenGL and ADSL, are fixed soon... Is kernel pppoe that much better performance-wise? I still run the old system on my router, mainly out of lazyness ... Another thing I noticed was broken in 2.6.1 on my Debian machine was the IHC dhcp server - it complained because it was compiled with a 2.4 kernel, a simple recompile solved the problem, though. Greetings, Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? I have used 2.5/2.6 on an Athlon and a Pentium 3 laptop since 2.5.69, and haven't had a single crash or data loss on any of them. e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) There is a config option for PIIX. XFree looks like it has problems No problem with XFree86 here, but I don't use cards without open-source drivers. XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems No problems here, both these machines use xfs. Should I install today, I would probably go back to ext3 with data journaling. -- Hilsen Harald. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:00, HvR wrote: apparently LVM doesnt work under 2.6 or did i miss some config setting? It's now EVMS and you need Device Mapper Support and the evms tools. EVMS can handle lvm without any problems. Visit evms.sf.net for the good oil. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:00:00 -0800 HvR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | apparently LVM doesnt work under 2.6 or did i miss some config | setting? You need to use lvm2 instead. That requires devicemapper v4 support in the kernel and the lvm2 userland stuff (you'll need to unmerge lvm-user first). Alternatively, you could go with the major headache known as EVMS... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Thank you. From: Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/04 Wed AM 03:19:53 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ? I can go back to 2.4 and it works fine, just says that the modules.??? is nower than the modules, but no errors and everything works fine? Mike On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:06 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Thank you. That is good to know. From: Arne Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/04 Wed AM 08:50:16 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ? Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? I don't know - it should. I installed it manually (that was still under SuSE). And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? No, the new utils will check what kernel is running and transparently call the old ones if it's 2.4 or earlier. Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Alex Nelson wrote: Arne Vogel wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). I cannot get rp-pppoe (ADSL), version 3.5, running on 2.6, too. Seems like a change in a kernel interface broke it. Strangely enough, ADSL via SuSE's smpppd did continue to work (I switched to Gentoo only recently). Update: I got it running, a kernel module for PPP over tty was missing (despite originally copying the 2.4.21 config to the 2.6.1 dir). Probably they renamed some config options which caused the module to disappear. snip Ummm. I am running the latest NVIDIA drivers (5336-r1) on a FX5200 board with OpenGL and it runs just fine. In fact, it runs America's Army faster and with higher framerates than the same hardware under Windows. Yes it does taint the kernel, but I am fine with that for the performance. The biggest issue I have with 2.6.x is the problem with using KVM's. I have to plug my mouse directly into my desktop for the mouse to work correctly with the 2.6.x kernels. Sound and performance have been great otherwise. As with anything else, use caution when making the switch. Keep a copy of your current kernel around until you are sure that 2.6.x is for you. Good luck!! Ok thanks! I previously tried to install 5328 for kernel 2.6.1 and it refused to install the kernel module. I now got 5336, and it works, except that KDE doesn't start (undefined symbol in /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1). GNOME and America's Army do work. Probably some library was linked against a previous version of libGLcore; I'm trying an emerge kdelibs now. If this works, I'm going to make 2.6.1 my default kernel! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Alexander Klink wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:17:32AM +0100, Arne Vogel wrote: Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Hmmm, weird, I downloaded the latest driver from the NVIDIA site and it seems to work quite well using 2.6.1 The newest version now works, thx! Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). Not for me, somehow 2.6.1 and nv seemed to have some problems (messed up graphics when starting X) experience problems. The system responsitivity under heavy I/O load (tar xjf...) was greatly improved, so personally I hope these 2 things that prevent me from switching, non-working Hardware OpenGL and ADSL, are fixed soon... Is kernel pppoe that much better performance-wise? I still run the old system on my router, mainly out of lazyness ... rp-pppoe is user space, and I don't mind. The problem was that ADSL didn't run at all, but adding the ppp for sync tty module now fixed it. Another thing I noticed was broken in 2.6.1 on my Debian machine was the IHC dhcp server - it complained because it was compiled with a 2.4 kernel, a simple recompile solved the problem, though. Greetings, Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Alan wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:48:12AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? It's not really a leap as you can swap kernels back and forth with only a reboot, no need to recompile everything or any such sillyness :) Personally I have problems with my logitech mx700 mouse (ps2). There were speed issues (different sampling method or something) which are solved with a kernel parameter (search the archives) but with the same X config my extra buttons and scroll wheel have stopped working properly. This is the only reason I'm not back with 2.4 for my desktop :-\ alan Hmm, my mouse wheel (Fujitsu-Siemens mouse) does work. Here's the XF86Config section, maybe it helps (snipped all the comments). XF86 version is 4.3.0: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocolimps/2 Option Device /dev/mouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 00:48, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? I recently upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 to development-sources-2.6.2. Everything works great in my case (or, to answer your question: nothing doesn't work=). Well, guess my hardware is pretty standard: * Intel 815 board, Celeron2 1200MHz (kernel compiled w/PentiumIII as CPU-type) * GeForce2 MX 400, using nvidia binary drivers (1.0-5336, using kernel agpgart). OpenGL performance increased notably from 2.4/nvidia-1.0-4496. (glxgears from ~900FPS to ~1000FPS, just a quick test, window at standard size, of course. Think this is pretty OK considering the hardware.) * USB mouse worked nicely * Two audio cards: ens1371 and i810_audio (I use OSS because I'm lazy and have no need for ALSA). Works perfectly. * VESA console framebuffer works. * Keyboard with NOrwegian setup works both in console and X (heard something about problems with the 2.6 non-US keyboard support, but have not noticed any in 2.6.2) * IDE controller (intel PIIX) works nicely w/DMA enabled for all connected devices (UDMA-100) * CD burning with ide-scsi works. Upgrading didn't require any dramatic system changes, nor any re-compiles of installed packages. I am a very happy user of a snappy new 2.6 kernel on my desktop machine. Guess this is another use-2.6 message. One thing worth noting: You should enable the devpts pseudo file system in the 2.6-kernel series (gentoo-install guide recommends to turn it off for 2.4-kernels). Without it I was unable to open terminals in X/KDE (konsole, xterm, ...). OT-PS. Don't use gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 if you use EXT3 as file system. (some EXT3 bug(s), triggered by portage in perl-installs/upgrades, file system gets corrupted (not destroyed)). -- Øyvind Stegard [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oslo, Dept. of informatics http://www.stegard.net/ 0x2B | ~0x2B - Hamlet -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
I can't even get it to boot! On Tuesday 03 February 2004 06:48 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up XFree looks like it has problems XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
I haven't spent a lot of time on these things, but they have been flaky for me. It's on a Dell Insp.4150. APM, ACPI. lost the ability to suspend. screen blanking doesn't work. Winmodem. I bought the Linuxant drivers, now when I install them, Hotplug fails to insert them on startup, worked fine with 2.4 Other than that, I'm working fine with 2.6. these two problems are not show stoppers for me but they might be for others. on the other hand, if they were show stoppers, I may have spent more time figuring out how to get them working. On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:48, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up XFree looks like it has problems XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brock Campbell -- System Integration, Consulting, Disaster Recovery -- --- Accelerated Technology --- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (306)222-2259 -- ---www.acceltech.ca --- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). I cannot get rp-pppoe (ADSL), version 3.5, running on 2.6, too. Seems like a change in a kernel interface broke it. Strangely enough, ADSL via SuSE's smpppd did continue to work (I switched to Gentoo only recently). XFree looks like it has problems Version 4.3.0 works fine under 2.6.1 on my machine. YMMV. XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems Well, if you've heard these have problems and use those file systems, I would advise caution until these things are worked out. Testing a scanner is one thing, wasting an FS another... In any case, if you want to try 2.6.x, make sure you install it alongside the one you're using now so you can easily switch back if you experience problems. The system responsitivity under heavy I/O load (tar xjf...) was greatly improved, so personally I hope these 2 things that prevent me from switching, non-working Hardware OpenGL and ADSL, are fixed soon... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Arne Vogel wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). I cannot get rp-pppoe (ADSL), version 3.5, running on 2.6, too. Seems like a change in a kernel interface broke it. Strangely enough, ADSL via SuSE's smpppd did continue to work (I switched to Gentoo only recently). XFree looks like it has problems Version 4.3.0 works fine under 2.6.1 on my machine. YMMV. XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems Well, if you've heard these have problems and use those file systems, I would advise caution until these things are worked out. Testing a scanner is one thing, wasting an FS another... In any case, if you want to try 2.6.x, make sure you install it alongside the one you're using now so you can easily switch back if you experience problems. The system responsitivity under heavy I/O load (tar xjf...) was greatly improved, so personally I hope these 2 things that prevent me from switching, non-working Hardware OpenGL and ADSL, are fixed soon... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Ummm. I am running the latest NVIDIA drivers (5336-r1) on a FX5200 board with OpenGL and it runs just fine. In fact, it runs America's Army faster and with higher framerates than the same hardware under Windows. Yes it does taint the kernel, but I am fine with that for the performance. The biggest issue I have with 2.6.x is the problem with using KVM's. I have to plug my mouse directly into my desktop for the mouse to work correctly with the 2.6.x kernels. Sound and performance have been great otherwise. As with anything else, use caution when making the switch. Keep a copy of your current kernel around until you are sure that 2.6.x is for you. Good luck!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 19:00, Brock Campbell wrote: I haven't spent a lot of time on these things, but they have been flaky for me. It's on a Dell Insp.4150. APM, ACPI. lost the ability to suspend. screen blanking doesn't work. Winmodem. I bought the Linuxant drivers, now when I install them, Hotplug fails to insert them on startup, worked fine with 2.4 Other than that, I'm working fine with 2.6. these two problems are not show stoppers for me but they might be for others. on the other hand, if they were show stoppers, I may have spent more time figuring out how to get them working. Did you recompile the linuxant drivers for 2.6? They need to be recompiled after any kernel upgrade. Ironically, on my laptop, I could not get power management to work at all with 2.4. I upgraded to 2.6.1 and everything all of a sudden worked. Can't beat that. Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
I emerged Win4lin sources, and it compiled fine. (6times) but when I boot it it just freezes at pnpbios stuff? Mike On Tuesday 03 February 2004 07:26 pm, Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
I can go back to 2.4 and it works fine, just says that the modules.??? is nower than the modules, but no errors and everything works fine? Mike On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:06 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:48:12AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? It's not really a leap as you can swap kernels back and forth with only a reboot, no need to recompile everything or any such sillyness :) Personally I have problems with my logitech mx700 mouse (ps2). There were speed issues (different sampling method or something) which are solved with a kernel parameter (search the archives) but with the same X config my extra buttons and scroll wheel have stopped working properly. This is the only reason I'm not back with 2.4 for my desktop :-\ alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:48:12AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? The only things that don't work for me with 2.6 are PPTP and lm-sensors. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
apparently LVM doesnt work under 2.6 or did i miss some config setting? On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:48, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up XFree looks like it has problems XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 February 2004 6:48 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up XFree looks like it has problems XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems My one learning that I have not see mentioned is that after you compile the kernel, you do this: cd /usr/src/linux (or wherever your 2.6 kernel is) depmod -e -F System.map The first time, it will complain that a directory doesn't exist. Create it. The second time, it creates the module dependencies. After that, I get a lot less module dependency error messages. - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIHuOWMqSOYd58pwRAmlgAJ9HXc5IirHMQfrJHUhc9f0BXnGQ7gCaA1kD 2G2QuRN5UhuBGt3ZeRqI/5o= =hNgT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
