On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:09:09AM -0600, Canek Pel?ez Vald?s wrote: > Hi; I've some issues with the latests gentoo-sources (including several > freezes with heavy processor/IO load), and by searching in the mailing > lists and in the forums (and the bug database), it seems that the better > solution is to make the move to 2.6.x. I'm currently using > gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 (hand configured kernel, using more or less the > same configuration since 2.4.20-something). > > The thing is, I use various modules and subsystems, and I need to know > if they work in 2.6.x. These are: > > - NVidia binary drivers. They work ok in 2.6.x? I've an AGP > GeForce4 MX 420.
Work fine with my gf4ti4200 with 2.6.0 and the pre kernels. I'm not using it all the time due to not being able to resolve some of my mouse issues, but nvidia works dandy (you might need ~86 however). > - LIRC. The lirc_gpio module works in 2.6.x? > - V4L/bttv. The latest driver (0.9.12) works OK with 2.6.x? No idea, sorry. > Besides that, I have several other questions. I know that devfs will be > changed to something else in the near future. Should I worry? I need to > make a special change? Only issue with this is you have to remember to put in /dev/pts. You don't need this with the 2.4 kernels as it's integrated in with devfs, but in 2.6 it was taken out. > What about NTPL? Should I use them? Not sure about this, check the forums as there are some people in there talking about it. I don't think it's needed anyway. > If someone has made the switch from 2.4 to 2.6, and has similar/the same > hardware as I, please post your comments about it. I have a very similar system and would be using 2.6 if I could deal with my mouse issues. In short, I have a logitech mx700 and after I got the mouse speed problems fixed (moving from 2.4 to 2.6 sped the mouse up about 100x :) I found that the buttons and scroll wheel stopped working properly. I hear it's due to that mouse using a new protocol (ps2 plus) which isn't supported by default in XFree86 (yet, there is a patch out there). Of the binary drivers I use, nvidia worked fine, nforce-net didn't work at all, and I couldn't get vmware going, but I have seen reports of it working if you check the archives and google. Other than that everything worked just dandy. I was using the ck and ac kernels before, so they had some of the preemptive patches already and I didn't notice any huge speed increase, but I didn't use it long enough for "real" use. I have 2.6 running on my apache server for the SATA drivers and it's rolling along just fine. alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway
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