I'm not exactly in the loop of this thread so I apologize if posting out of turn.....
My only previous post was to report no sucess with Debian on my Vaio PCG-FX220....that is no longer true :-) I had reported being able to install RH7.2 from CD very easily, everything just worked...Debian would get through the install, but couldn't survive a reboot, kernel panics no matter what I tried.... Got me to thinking I'd try a 2.4 kernel as RH had...lo and behold I'm a happy camper with 2.4.17....except for sound I now have Debian on my Vaio. (I think that if I just spend some time reading about Alsa I can make it work) Haven't tackled PCMCIA yet, but my wireless card is coming... Much happier as I'm more familar with dselect then any package mtce tools in RH...been a Debian user since .9ish... buzz/hamm/bo and the rest... thank you Debian developers! Cheers, Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Klaas Gadeyne > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:37 AM > To: Cassandra Lynette Ludwig > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IRQ Conflicts ? > > > > Erik, would you perhaps explain therefore to me why almost 60% of the > > hardware in my laptop ceases to function if I run a 2.4 kernel, but work > > flawlessly with a 2.2 kernel (2.2.20 basline debian is my currently > > version). > > This might be an interesting point! Me neither, I've never succeeded to > run a 2.4 series kernel succesfully on a laptop (this is only my second > one, so it is hard to generalize:-). > > Some more details for the interested readers :-)... > > My previous laptop was a Toshiba Satellite 1640CDT. I tried several > versions and configurations of the 2.4 series, but none of them ran > smoothly on the hardware. Always crashes, never found anything in the > logs, never got a ksymoops :-( > > My new one is a Dell latitude C810. I got _everything_ out of the 2.4.17 > kernel, until I stayed with the bare necessities, tried with or without > apm, with or without acpi, but nothing worked out :-(. > > Even the event of plugging the laptop from battery to AC and vice versa > got me a crash everytime, with all of the above configurations... > > Yesterday evening I decided to patch the good old 2.2.20 with ext3, and > since then, no more problems... > > I know the information above is too succint to be able to diagnose the > problem, but I've read through many of the kernel's Changelogs to figure > out what could be the problem and never found anything that I presumed to > be responsable for the "phantom"-crashes. > > I wonder whether there are people with the same (or contrasting :-) > experiences with 2.4 kernels on their laptops. > > klaas > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
