Am Fr, den 13.02.2004 schrieb David Baron um 10:31: > I installed a 2.6.2-1 Kernel Image and successfully made an initrd with ext3 > and ... and ... the thing booted (after a small correction in the > mkinitrd.conf requested by the first panic message!). > > OK. Alsa would start up. I did not expect it to since there is an updated alsa > for this kernel and some stuff built in for it. (If I want to use this kernel > but keep my old one around for a while, might a get the newer alsa and not > kill the older one?)
You may want to try the latest -mm kernel if you experience ALSA problems. > A couple of modules were not found. "Assumed built into kernel". No harm > apparently. You may want to edit /etc/modules or use modconf to get rid of the messages. > And, oh yes, the mouse did not work but there has been a lot of that going > around lately :-) The PS/2 mouse driver seems to have changed which confuses a lot of people. > Would the /dev/mouse0 entry in XF86Config-4 interfere with > the old kernel? Just use a USB mouse :) I'm using a 2.4 XF86Config on my laptop with /dev/input/mice and /dev/psaux /touchpad) w/o any problems. > Similar initrds made for my 2.4.22-xfs are not accepted as valid ram images. 2.6 changed quiet a bit of things. Reading Documentation/Changes is a must. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]