Re: Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-11 Thread Jon Grosshart
Archaic wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 05:15:43PM -0400, Jon Grosshart wrote: > >>As I stated earlier, many of my older/working drivers are breaking >>with each subsquient release of 2.6.xx > > > Can't you save yourself a lot of hassle and stop upgrading the kernel? > Go back to the last k

Re: Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-09 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 05:15:43PM -0400, Jon Grosshart wrote: > > As I stated earlier, many of my older/working drivers are breaking > with each subsquient release of 2.6.xx Can't you save yourself a lot of hassle and stop upgrading the kernel? Go back to the last kernel that worked well for

Re: Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-09 Thread Jon Grosshart
Ken Moffat wrote: >On Mon, 9 May 2005, Jon Grosshart wrote: > >>Okay... I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the input. It took me >>months to get to the point where I'm at now. Used pkgtool and am at >>307 packages and counting Theres no way in hell I'm starting >>over... :-) Replacing packa

Re: Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Jon Grosshart wrote: > > Okay... I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the input. It took me > months to get to the point where I'm at now. Used pkgtool and am at > 307 packages and counting Theres no way in hell I'm starting > over... :-) Replacing packages is a snap with

Re: Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-08 Thread Jon Grosshart
On 5/8/05, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:36:21PM -0400, Jon Grosshart wrote: > > O.k... I did use that switch as per the books instructions. So thats > > the only thing holding me up then? If I were to rebuild glibc and omit > > --enable-add-ons=nptl I'd be good to

Re: Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-08 Thread Archaic
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:36:21PM -0400, Jon Grosshart wrote: > O.k... I did use that switch as per the books instructions. So thats > the only thing holding me up then? If I were to rebuild glibc and omit > --enable-add-ons=nptl I'd be good to go? It's a little more complicated than that. It wou

Re: Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-08 Thread Jon Grosshart
O.k... I did use that switch as per the books instructions. So thats the only thing holding me up then? If I were to rebuild glibc and omit --enable-add-ons=nptl I'd be good to go? Thanks again... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blf

Re: Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-08 Thread Archaic
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:16:31AM -0400, Jon Grosshart wrote: > Is this possible once I have built everything with the 2.6.8.1 kernel? No. That is, not if you compiled glibc with NPTL (which you did if you followed the book). -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating

Downgrading kenel to 2.4.xx

2005-05-08 Thread Jon Grosshart
Is this possible once I have built everything with the 2.6.8.1 kernel? My expierences over the past year hasn't been very favorable. The 2.6 branch is in constant flux and is beaking alot of drivers that I still have need for. I downgraded flex to 2.5.4a to get rid of the lex error on modutils-2.4.