-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At least with regards to sound.
I must now give up on any 9.2 stock kernels. I have now failed to get my fully functional sound system to work in 9.2 using: default kernel 2.4.22-10mdk, 2.4.22-21mdk, 2.4.22 multimedia kernel, the 9.2 2.4.22 tmb kernel. Not a one of them will operate my VIA 8233 sound device while 9.1 and the 2.4.21 kernel series had no problems. Another problem endemic to the 2.4.22 kernel set is its inability to bootup a system that has APIC disabled in bios. Before 9.2 (and 2.4.22) I disabled APIC in bios and everything worked very well. As a matter of fact, to ensure that everything worked stably and properly I HAD to disable APIC. Now, with the 2.4.22 series, I absolutely HAVE to enable APIC in bios or the system will die during early bootup, even if I use the noapic kernel option. Either "noapic" doesn't do anything, or the kernel, regardless of switch, now absolutely requires APIC to function at all. I have also tried acpi=off alone or in combination with noapic. No sound regardless. The killer is the absolute requirement for APIC to be enabled, however. If I hadn't gone the extra step of experimenting (in other words, if I were a standard likely new user) I would have had to give up on 9.2 and assume it was totally borked. My 9.0 and 9.1 installs were flawless and sound worked. SuSE 9.0 installs flawlessly (but uses a specially modified 2.4.21 kernel) and sound works. 9.2 wont install unless APIC is enabled in bios and cannot handle the previously fine via 8233 sound device. Can anyone suggest a way of getting a 9.1 kernel to build/install/function on a 9.2 install? I tried installing the SuSE 9.0 kernel source rpm but it is so oddly setup that I feared even trying to build and install it. It doesn't merely install a kernel source directory tree in /usr/src, it also adds an extra kernel/headers tree as well. I have already tried building several 2.4.21 kernels from 9.1 but they fail at various points in module building (every time a failure would occur, I'd do a make clean and restart xconfig and disable the module that caused the latest problem, if it was an unneeded module, and try again...only to run into yet another and another and another, etc, until I gave up). Honestly, at this point I have two clear options unless someone can offer a viable alternative: uninstall 9.2 and go back to 9.1 or install SuSE 9.0. praedor - -- "Events are in the saddle and ride mankind." - --Ralph Waldo Emerson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/u4QYaKr9sJYeTxgRAhEzAJ4ys0VNan0dX6vSrvJXba5YTPqZygCgqNnI 2EMUPODgT0PeqWiq8KOWBVo= =Y1SZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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