Keith Antoine babbled on about: > As I said I have had some peculiar results with Suse 7.3 and also the same > problem, over the past few days I have compiled 2.4.10, 2.4.12, and 14. I > did these with and without framebuffers (kernel errord out with > framebuffers included in 14), the results were the same with all compiles. > No text to secreen and in some cases no boot at all. This was all done for > the bttv card to see if it was a kernel problem. One thing I will say I > _could_ not compile sucessfully 2.4.14..................... had a problem > in config_drivers_block that I could not remedy. Not for want of fiddling, > for as you know I do have time to do that.
see the patch on my other post > > It would appear to me that Suse does not like recompiled kernels or there > is a special way to do this...............However they do warn in the > manuals against doing vanilla recompiles. you can do exactly what you want. I do it all the time. you just have to forgo the SuSE version of lilo and the kernel and do without the graphics. ping me offlist and we'll beat on this one Skip.. BTW, the only reason SuSE is so down on the vanilla kernels is cause their kernels contain patches that aren't in Linus kernel (the IDE patches comes to mind). They just don't want to deal with "when I installed it, it saw my device xxx, now it don't" questions. They had reiserfs before it was in the main kernel too, IIRC. SuSE really does a *lot* of value-add distro stuff. That can either be a blessing, or a curse.. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. -- Peter H. Coffin _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
