Oron Peled wrote: > My conclusion -- either join the ride (I'm doing it for years) or look for > one of the slower alternatives I mentioned in my earlier post. > Thanks for your input, Oron, even though my conclusion was the opposite: I just jumped off the ride, before it reaches its final station. I don't want to be updated. So I suppose that by stopping updates now, I'll have one upgrade left in the repository (which I'll download in its entity sooner or later), so I can do small fixes as necessary easily (as was necessary with mencoder, which didn't take data from stdin due to a short-lived bug).
So my choice was to download a 2.6.35.4 kernel from kernel.org, and use Fedora's configuration as a starting point. The only major change I did was to activate the NTFS filesystem in my kernel, which isn't even a module in the distribution kernel. I wonder why not. I used dracut to create my own initramfs file, which turned out 16 MB instead of their 12 MB. That's necessary, since my root filesystem is encrypted, so a password prompt is necessary. And since Fedora thought it would be cool to do that with a pretty graphical interface, a lot has to be in place to support that, and hence that massive RAM disk. But who cares? And yes, I ran into a small bump, which was the KSM service complaining it can't find the max_kernel_pages file anymore, since the new kernel has removed that attribute. So I commented out the relevant line in the script, and so much for that. Since then (36 hours ago) nothing special has happened. So if I won't see any Radeon related crashes anymore, I'll mark this one as mission completed. Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux