On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:56, Mark Lane wrote: > Red Hat released a new Kernel today as an update. So I would check that one > out first. If that doesn't work you may want to download the SRPM for the > 8.1 kernel and rebuild it for 8.0. If you try and install just the 8.1 or > Rawhide binaries though you will have to update you system first which is > probably not what you want to do. But if you rebuild the kernel rpms, then > you shouldn't have to update glibc and the like. (No guarantees though) > > Another option for the kernel is to make you own 2.4.20 kernel. You can > copy the config file for your processor from the kernel source rpm to > (/usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/ directory) and use it as ".config" file for > 2.4.20. Then by running "make oldconfig", make will prompt you for any new > options or changes in kernel features. Of Course, you can load it into > "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" as well.
Well I've been playing with this thing all day. I'm not sure if I've gained any ground or not. I ran memtest86 for 8 passes, and it didn't find any errors, so I'm going to assume that my memory is fine. I also downloaded the 2.4.20-2.9 kernel from the RedHat 8.1 beta. I rebuilt the src.rpm, and installed the kernel-sources rpm. I had to upgrade a few packages, but not glibc or anything major. The problem was that I could no longer compile the NVIDIA_kernel module. I did some reading through the NVIDIA forum, and it seems as though RedHat has made some changes to the kernel including backporting some features from the 2.5 kernel, which make it incompatible with the NVIDIA drivers (another example of RedHat screwing up great software). Anyways I removed all the kernels except for the stock 2.4.18-14 kernel, and I'm going to see how it goes. If I do need to compile a standard 2.4.20 kernel, could I use the config file from the RedHat 8.0, or 8.1 kernels? If I did that would it set all the options to the RedHat defaults? I just hate compiling kernels, because I have no idea what half of the options mean. Thanks again, Jesse
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