Using 2.4.0 that was released on the 5th available from kernel.org. No test
number or anything. Actually, all that trouble was on my 'test' machine. I
installed 2.4.0 on my 'main' machine last night and all went fine. No errors
on start up. PMfirewall still working (apparently had make a bad choice in
xconfig with the other one). Sound and modem automagically configured (had
to run sndconfig & setserial on test machine). Don't know about the apm yet.
Been on my machine every since.
If I put vga=788 in lilo (as it was previously), my screen goes blank after
the .....booting kernel ok. But if I change it to vga=normal, its loads in
the old fashioned text like manner with the green [ok]s. No biggie there.
Can live with it.
I must still mount floppies, & mount and umount cdroms. Still no biggie
really. *But my ide zip doesn't work now. When trying to mount I get an
error about it not being a valid block device and unable to open /dev/zip.
(Biggie here.)* It will eject tho.
Still can't get nvidia drivers loaded. It complains about it being the wrong
kernel now! (Previous problems with i815 mobo and agpgart support). Still
have to wait some more I guess.
Oh well, all in all I'm quite happy with the way it went. Maybe I'll do the
little machine just for the fun of it.
-s
On Monday 15 January 2001 10:35 am, you wrote:
> Sorry to hear the bad news with your compile. Mine was flawless. Slow and
> steady but flawless, nonetheless. I researched and read while going through
> my compile. If you could give me an idea of your hardware specs I can
> probably provide some insight, bro. I don't use PMfirewall but if I did, I
> would expect it to break. The price to pay for working with static binaries
> better known as tarballs. That is what RPMs so beautiful, they are dynamic
> thus flex and readjust mostly to changes as greatly as this.
>
> Cheers
> -- Al
>
