if I remember correctly 7.2 had a 2.4 hack kernel included with the distro,, so it shouldn't be that hard to get a newer 2.4 kernel happening... you will probably have to put it together yourself though, and apply the same patchs that mandrake use for the 8 or 8.1 series..
remember 2.4 kernels like swap files twice your ram, so if you don't already have that, you might have to resize your swap.. I have 7.2 on several of our box's and I have always been happy with the performance.. one question I was wondering about, redhat offers athlon kernel binaries, I never get arround to compiling my own any more so I was wondering about grabbing one and trying it on a 8.1 system, has anyone done that? can you do a rpm --rebuild --target=athlon kernelx.x.x.src.rpm with the mandrake src packages for the kernel? if so, would it be better to use gcc3 or 2.96??? rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Hawkins Sent: Saturday, 15 December 2001 3:20 AM To: expert Mandrake Subject: [expert] 2.4 Upgrade I am running a laptop with 7.2 on it. The questions I have is: Is it worth trying an upgrade of the kernel to 2.4.x? I have a USB port that 7.2 sees, but appears to not be able to use, and I would like to get a webcam working on that port. No need to explain here, please just point me to good article on installing new kernel. Would there be any improvement in system (media playback) speed? Unlike a Winblows installation on the same laptop, under MDK7.2, I can actually watch feature length movies (AVI's), but when there is alot of action, combined with a pan of the background, the drop-offs get over 60%. Perhaps there are some tweaks I am overlooking? I have already played with hdparm to crank up (e)ide 32 bit I/O support, and that made an improvement. I will allow that 7.2 has MUCH better memory management than any form of win-duh-ohzz, but is there possibly a way to pre-load shorter videos fully into memory; I assume that this would reduce drop-out as the system would then not have to wait for disk reads, but perhaps the video rendering is more of a processor issue? System info AMD 380 (~700 bogomips)(i think) 160MB ram 4GB hdd Neomagic video & sound (i know, i know, junk!) Ken williamgates? |||||||||||| attilathehun? Coincidence? I think not.
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