On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 01:30, Robert Crawford wrote: > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01:13, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 12:46, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > > > kernel 2.6 would have been cool. at least as a side choice.... even a > > > 2.5.xx would have been ok as a side choice when installing. :) > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Adrian > > > > There is a 2.5xx in cooker now... 2.6 won't be out in time (Dec Jan last > > I heard on it.) So since what is now cooker will become MDK... I'd say > > it'll be there... the multimedia kernel would however be a better choice > > many of the features and it's stable. > > > > James > > > James- I looked all around in cooker, and couldn't find the 2.5 kernel you > mentioned.
Did you look in cooker's contrib or cooker's main... It was in contrib for cooker. > > BTW, I just compiled a really lean 2.4.21 vanilla with the Con Kolivas ck3 > patches he just posted (the base patch, and all the performance patches, and > supermount). I like it at least as much as the MDK multimedia kernel I had > been using (which is better than stock). > > I've had success with 2.5.67 through 2.5.72, except for one baffling show > stopper. I can either enable serial drivers in xconfig, and get modem > functions, but then have various serious problems in file managers, or > disable serial, and all the problems go away- kernel works great, but I have > no modem use. After months of countless configs and hair pulling, I'm still > stumped. Where's that 2.5.xx you mentioned- I guess it works, or they > wouldn't post it? I'd like to see that .config file! It's an odd number. Buchan and others in cooker have labeled it as a project worth doing... and a kernel to keep far away from production boxes. 2.5.x is after all experimental. I'm willing to bet you won't find it on Alan Cox's or Linus' production boxes *grin* > > Robert Crawford > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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