some please help me out with this one.. my sys config is as follows:
ahtlon xp 2400+ 512+256 ddr a7n8x-vm/400 mobo lg cdrw & 120 GB seagate i installed slackware 10.1 successfully with kernel 2.4.26, and added K3B. installed the 61.04 agp drivers from Nvidia, they wurked fine.. also installed the nvidia nforce drivers for audio and etehrnet. everythin wurked fine. then i tried to upgrade the kernel.. to 2.6.9, made another image of the kernel.. viz. kept the old kernel image secure, installed the new kernel ... copied it to /boot/new/bzImage . and made appropriate entries in lilo.conf and reinstalld lilo. the problems : 1) loading the X11 session manager takes helluva time.. i wud like 2 knw whether this is due to the kernel being sluggish or some thing else ? 2) the cdrw drive does not work.. there is no device that can be pointed to.. /dev/sr0, /dev/sg0, /dev/scd0, /dev/sc0, although the scsi driver gets loaded during boot and i can see that in the dmesg logs. this happens irrespective of whether i pass the 'hdc=ide-scsi' parameter to the kernel at boot. earlier (with 2.4.26) my cdrw was at /dev/hdc and with scsi emulation it became /dev/sr0. i have compiled the kernel with the option of "scsi" as a loadable module. so what is the verdict, is the new kernel some thing that shud not b used, at least for ppl who do not hav the time 2 keep bangin their heads on da keyboard ? this statement can be said to be supported by the fact that slackware 10.1 even has kernel 2.4.29 as base and 2.6.10 for testing. -- _______________________________________________ NEW! Lycos Dating Search. The only place to search multiple dating sites at once. http://datingsearch.lycos.com -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
