On Thursday 14 February 2002 16:37, Tal Amir wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:44:18 +0200 (IST)
> > > i will not be near that machine until sunday morning, but its the
> > > default version that comes with LM8.1 (i think its 2.4.17)
> >
> > 2.4.8-something
>
> your are right..it is 2.4.8
>
> > There were a number of critical fixes in the kernel that was issued about
> > a month after Mandrake 8.1 was out. Mandrake have posted updated RPMs.
> > You are encourged to upgrade.
>
> seems like there is no way to avoid upgrading. but you have to aggree that
> its kinda dumb that an original (pre-compiled) kernel will not support a
> common card by default..smp or not.
well you are wrong. for example: on mandrake 8.1 the dri render is really
buggy and 3d games work at a frame rate of 2-3 frames per second. (tux racer
and quake3). How about lirc? how about joysticks?
- diego
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